popularity-contest

[NoOp]

On 03/29/2007 03:46 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:36:49 +0200
> Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> 
>> When you install this package, it sets up a cron job that will
>> anonymously submit statistics about your most used packages
>> periodically to the developers.
>> 
>>  This information helps us make decisions such as which packages
>> should be promoted and so be in standard installs.
> 
> Is this anything to do with it? 91.189.89.6 seems to be Canonical
>  
> Mar 17 07:35:01 kernel: [1290021.155726] Inbound IN=eth0 OUT=
> MAC=<....> SRC=91.189.89.6 DST=192.168.1.100 LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x80
> TTL=60 ID=51062 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=80 DPT=36015 WINDOW=64240 RES=0x00 ACK
> SYN URGP=0
> 
> I get these every day.
> 
> - Richard

That is an Canonical/Ubuntu archive repository server - 91.189.88.0 -
91.189.95.255 (91.189.88.0/21) are all Canonical Ltd (netname:
CANONICAL-CORE).

03/29/07 10:40:23 dns 91.189.89.6
nslookup 91.189.89.6
Canonical name: forster.canonical.com
Addresses:
  91.189.89.6

Dig archive.ubuntu.com at ns.ubuntu.com (82.211.81.173) ...
Authoritative Answer
 Query for archive.ubuntu.com type=255 class=1
  archive.ubuntu.com A (Address) 91.189.89.6
  archive.ubuntu.com A (Address) 91.189.89.8

03/29/07 10:56:01 dns archive.ubuntu.com
Canonical name: archive.ubuntu.com
Addresses:
  91.189.89.8
  91.189.89.6

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=91.189.89.6