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Hi, I used etherape to watch connections and had the situation where my PC was sending Kbytes of data continuously to 26 root-servers. This I had not seen before and having read somewhere that Hackers were working on DOS attacks to these Servers I assumed my PC had been turned into a Web Bot. I reinstalled Mint 18.2 and the problem disappeared. Has anyone experienced a similar problem? By the way I tried Mint 19 but had audio (5.1), etherape, samba problems so stayed with 18.2 which cannot recommend highly enough.
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- catweazel
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Re: a.root-servers.net
It's more than likely that your machine's network configuration was dodgy, hence the problem going away when you reinstalled.jobangles wrote: ⤴Sun Oct 14, 2018 12:17 am Hi, I used etherape to watch connections and had the situation where my PC was sending Kbytes of data continuously to 26 root-servers. This I had not seen before and having read somewhere that Hackers were working on DOS attacks to these Servers I assumed my PC had been turned into a Web Bot. I reinstalled Mint 18.2 and the problem disappeared.
Cheers.
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Re: a.root-servers.net
Thanks Catweazel, like to know what is what. I am also downunder and it is raining. Yippee!
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Thanks Trytip.