I have permanent connections to Canonical servers How to turn them off?

[Psil0cybin]

After installing ubuntu 12.04, removing the video lens, etc I still notice that running

lsof -i

gives me

ubuntu-ge
>mulberry.canonical.com:http (CLOSE_WAIT)

Thus I seem to be always constantly calling home...
Why are there permanent connections, and how could I stop this from starting up on my machine?
I understand its for timezones, but If my computer is only within one constant area, should I really be wasting my bandwidth on that?

I was wondering if there is a method for turning this off in 12.04

Is it a bad idea to turn it off by the following method: (as I heard it might only work for 12.10?)

1. Open your dconf editor: $ dconf-edditor
2. Navigate to the com/ubuntu/geoip option
3. Set the value of geoip-url to nothing "".

or

$ gsettings set com.ubuntu.geoip geoip-url ""# check success $ gsettings list-recursively | grep geoipcom.ubuntu.geoip geoip-url ''

[matt_symes]

Hi

lsof -i

gives me

ubuntu-ge
>mulberry.canonical.com:http (CLOSE_WAIT)

The port is in a CLOSE_WAIT state.

Thus I seem to be always constantly calling home...

Are you sure ? Have you checked by using netstat to get the port and the using iftop with a filter to view traffic on that port and interface ?

sudo apt-get install iftop

matthew-S206:/home/matthew % netstat -plan | grep WAIT     
(Not all processes could be identified, non-owned process info
 will not be shown, you would have to be root to see it all.)
tcp        1      0 192.168.0.111:44939     81.171.118.141:119      CLOSE_WAIT  4468/slrn       
tcp        1      0 192.168.0.111:38400     66.196.66.213:80        CLOSE_WAIT  2629/firefox    
matthew-S206:/home/matthew %

sudo iftop -i eth0 -f "src port 38400"

My wireless interface is currently called eth0. I suspect yours is most probably called wlan0 (assuming you are connecting wirelessly).

Why are there permanent connections, and how could I stop this from starting up on my machine?

Are you sure it's not just a bug in the program where it's not sending it's FIN ACK to close the connection correctly ?

I understand its for timezones, but If my computer is only within one constant area, should I really be wasting my bandwidth on that?

My point is, have you actually checked to see if this is a bug or if there actually is traffic going across ?

If there is no traffic then you are not wasting bandwidth.

The fix you posted should stop the connection as far as i am aware. I have not seen it being 12.10 specific but i may be wrong here as i cannot check. So i am open to correction.

Kind regards

[Psil0cybin]

I keep getting this result
$ gsettings set com.ubuntu.geoip geoip-url ""
No such schema 'com.ubuntu.geoip'

I looked in the dconf settings and i cannot find the ones specified...what does this mean?
Upon typing it again
it now says

mistletoe.canonical.com:http (ESTABLISHED)
so I know its an active connection.