I am running Firestarter on Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. I have noticed several times that after closing all web apps (Firefox, Thunderbird) that some entries remain under the heading "Active connections" on the Firestarter "Status" tab. Often these show no source program. Currently I have 2 showing which show Firefox as the source. These persist after Firefox is shut down. I have verified that no Firfox process is running. And both of the IPs point to google.

I have Disconnected eht0 and they still show. I have logged out and back in and they still show. I must reboot the machine to make these entries go away. Which makes me think perhaps this is a bug in Firestarter(?)

Is there another way I can identify truly active connections?

TIA,

Ken

'netstat -an' in a shell

Thanks slimm609! I have one of the phantom connections showing now - points to an IP at Omniture.com - some web analyzing parasites - so probably the connection originated while surfing. I ran the netstat -an command as you recommended (and piped the results to less so I could see the Internet connections on the first page of output) and the phantom connection is not present even though Firestarter lists it.

I will keep this command handy for the future. Thanks again for the excellent advice.

Ken