Pidgin - Suspiciously uploading data?

[Ethan Blanton]

Lauritz Vesteraas Thaulow spake unto us the following wisdom:
> There's a little group of people on the Ubuntu forums wondering why
> pidgin regularly uploads a sizeable amount of data to the msn servers,
> even when not chatting with anyone.

One of the more MSN-savvy devs will have to comment on this, but I
suspect it is related to our known inefficient buddy list transfers on
MSN.

> Quoting one poster:
> 
>   "wireshark says i'm sending and recieveing lots of msnms packets
>    between me and 207.46.124.52 which will lookup to 
>    by2msg4010605.phx.gbl.

Note that this is an MSN address, they're just incompetent, among
other things, to configure their DNS.  Other addresses in this block
(e.g., 207.46.124.2) resolve to msn.net addresses.

Ethan

-- 
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
for evils].  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
determined to commit crimes.
		-- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 481 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://pidgin.im/pipermail/support/attachments/20100523/c4e3b146/attachment.sig>