ET Phone Home (Why is my computer dialing RedHat?)

bmckee · 03-04-2002, 11:03 PM

Good Evening All.
I recently installed a linux router/firewall for my home network (BBIAgent.net) Works great, except it dials into my ISP roughly every two hours!
I tried using 'tcpdump' and got some interesting info I don't understand.
192.168.0.2 is my linux box, 192.168.0.254 is the router.

-> 23:38:17.562019 eth0 > arp who-has 192.168.0.254 tell 192.168.0.2 (0:50:ba:be:59:65)
-> 23:38:17.562019 eth0 < arp reply 192.168.0.254 is-at 0:0:c0:51:e8:c1 (0:50:ba:be:59:65)
-> 23:38:17.562019 eth0 > 192.168.0.2.1025 > 192.168.0.254.domain: 53518+ A? www.rhns.redhat.com. (37) (DF)
-> 23:38:22.572019 eth0 > 192.168.0.2.1025 > 192.168.0.254.domain: 53518+ A? www.rhns.redhat.com. (37) (DF)
-> 23:38:27.582019 eth0 > 192.168.0.2.1025 > 192.168.0.254.domain: 53519+ A? www.rhns.redhat.com.Ourhouse. (46) (DF)

This goes on for many more packets - I didn't post whole thing due to length but can provide. Can someone tell my why my computer is 'calling home?'

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Aarstar · 03-04-2002, 11:06 PM

Maybe the redhat update utility?

bmckee · 03-05-2002, 10:12 PM

Yeah, I thought of that - but there are no settings in up2date-config or up2date that I can see that tell it to try to update on it's own. It's been rebooted a couple of times too, so it's not like something is hanging around half done either. I even tried installing some of the suggested updates, but the problem continues.....