Periodotic connections to http://mistletoe.canonical.com...

Tue Jul 21 17:23:23 UTC 2015

On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 13:04 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> Why would a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS system (a VM in this case) be making periodotic 
> connections to http://mistletoe.canonical.com?  I am on a dialup connection 
> and don't really want my VMs making regular 'phone home' connections.  I do 
> things like updates using a mirror disk kept up-to-date with manual rsync's 
> from a disk kept up to date with debmirror on a server on a fast network 
> connection.  I don't need or want my VMs trying to be clever and using 
> bandwidth outside of my control.

Step 1: Google mistletoe.canonical.com

Step 2: Read the first hit (an AskUbuntu entry)

Regards, K.

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