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After upgrading two Mac Mini servers from Snow Leopard Server to Mountain Lion + OS X Server, I noticed that "background network traffic" went up ... that is, traffic on the network when I'm not even doing anything.
Sniffing w/WireShark, I see that both of my upgrade Mac Mini's are now exchanging quite a bit of traffic with IPs that appear to be associated with www.footprints.net (or, at least when I telnet to port 80 on the IPs, I get a redirect to www.footprints.net, but reverse DNS for those IPs does not return anything).
I didn't notice this before the upgrades, and I am not seeing it on my other computers that are still on Snow Leopard. I did not install any apps from the app store other than OS X Server.
Was curious if anyone else noticed this? I believe www.footprints.net is a site for tracking location of cell phones, so I can't imagine what on my Mac would be doing this.
Oh, and I did upgrade Parallels as well to 8.0, but don't think that is a likely suspect. And I didn't install any other new software since then.
Curious if anyone else has seen this and has any idea what it might be?
Regards,
Dave.
Mac OS X forum: Is OS X sending info to footprints.net?
by: dfcolornet September 15, 2012 2:12 PM PDT
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Any Symantec software on your network?
by R. Proffitt 
- 9/24/12 9:41 AM
In Reply to: footprints.net by wildwebindia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessageLabs
You have to poke around to see why I ask this but it's something worth knowing about.
Bob
Ahhh
by wildwebindia - 9/24/12 12:10 PM
In Reply to: Any Symantec software on your network? by R. Proffitt
Many thanks for that - my bad. Should copy + paste rather than typing! I was searching for footprintS.net rather than footprint.net. I queried a file in Nortons the other day, probably the only time I've done so, hence the first time I'd seen the reference in the DNS requests list.
Mark
That software is only available from the App Store,
by mrmacfixit - 9/24/12 3:36 PM
In Reply to: Ahhh by wildwebindia
as a purchase, so I doubt it was part of the OS, unless....it has something to do with Find my Phone.
P
Nothing to do with iOS
by wildwebindia - 9/25/12 4:09 AM
In Reply to: That software is only available from the App Store, by mrmacfixit
To make it completely clear my response to the original post was completely in error so please disregard. I found the entry in my DNS log, but typed instead of cut and pasted and mistakenly googled "footprints.net" (note the 's') as opposed to "footprint.net". My incorrect search led me to conclude it was connected to a tracking app for iOS, so I drew the wrong conclusion - footprint.net is actually invoked by Symantec software, among others, as helpfully pointed out by @R.Proffitt, and had resulted from when I had queried Nortons over a file in Windows, not iOS.
So please disregard all my posts on this, however the OPs question is still unanswered.
Sorry for the confusion!
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