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J8mT54p

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Registered: 2010-03-06

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Unknown FTP-Transfer from mirrors4.kernel.org

uname -a
Linux arch64 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 23 19:43:46 CET 2010 x86_64 AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Hi,

yesterday I logged into my account and recognized that the network interface is receiving data. This doesn't last very long, just long enough for me to fire the lsof-command:

lsof -i
COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
cupsd   3317 root    5u  IPv4   7321      0t0  TCP *:ipp (LISTEN)
cupsd   3317 root    8u  IPv4   7325      0t0  UDP *:ipp 
dhcpcd  3406 root   11u  IPv4   7467      0t0  UDP 192.168.178.6:bootpc 
wget    3572 root    4u  IPv4   8732      0t0  TCP 192.168.178.6:56148->mirrors4.kernel.org:ftp (ESTABLISHED)
wget    3572 root    5u  IPv4   8733      0t0  TCP 192.168.178.6:50126->mirrors4.kernel.org:5322 (ESTABLISHED)

The culprit is wget connecting to mirrors4.kernel.org via ftp.
After receiving ca. 8 MiB of data all went to normal state. This was the first time I've realized such thing.
Can anybody tell me what's the meaning of this?

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Is it possible that this is related to mandb? My repository mirror is ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/x86_64 .

Last edited by J8mT54p (2010-03-17 16:13:58)