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polybutylene

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Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 19

location.services.mozilla.com

I am trying to figure out why my desktop is contacting location.services.mozilla.com approximately 60 000 times per day.  Seems that every 10s, there are 4 DNS requests for location services.  This seems very excessive.  I'm running Gnome Desktop.

Things I've tried:
- disable location services in Gnome settings
- disable automatic location in Gnome weather app.
- removing all gnome-extensions

Is there a way to see which program/app is producing all this traffic?

Thanks!

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 30,426

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Re: location.services.mozilla.com

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireshark

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Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: location.services.mozilla.com

# echo '127.0.0.1 location.services.mozilla.com' >> /etc/hosts

Problem solved

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polybutylene

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Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 19

Re: location.services.mozilla.com

I will try wireshark and see what shows up.  I'm hesitant to just redirect call via a hosts entry as I want to know what program is triggering this mess.  I'm fairly sure it's a core GNOME service, as when I logout the calls stop and start up shortly after I login with nothing else running.

polybutylene

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Registered: 2017-05-09

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Re: location.services.mozilla.com

Wireshark was the ticket.  It's definitely GNOME.  Seems that if any activity triggers a location service then it goes haywire.  I can stop the flood if I start gnome cleanly with location services turned off and never touching location programs like GNOME-maps or weather lookups.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,041

Re: location.services.mozilla.com

What if you mask geoclue.service?

polybutylene

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Registered: 2017-05-09

Posts: 19

Re: location.services.mozilla.com

Masking geoclue works. 

I started up Gnome-calender, which launches geoclue to add weather reports.  Geoclue goes nuts dumping journal errors such as 'Failed to connect to ModemManager' and floods my pihole with DNS requests. 

Killing and blocking geoclue solves the problem.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: location.services.mozilla.com

# echo '127.0.0.1 location.services.mozilla.com' >> /etc/hosts

PSA: please use 0.0.0.0 (non routable instead of localhost) in your hosts file.

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