ping goolge daemon?

Hi all, I decided to install and run wireshark on my aspire just for fun and noticed the notebook is pinging google IPs every so often.

Has anyone else seen this or know why it would be doing this?

 

Yes I've seen this too, my router stops and logs them.
There is a second adress that is checked every second.
I'll lookup where that leads.

edit:
fro my wl500g system log :
Oct 15 22:42:29 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=66.249.91.99 : Google
Oct 15 22:42:30 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=66.249.91.99
Oct 15 22:42:31 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=211.78.162.151 : http://cdn.040services.net/linpus/
Oct 15 22:42:32 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=211.78.162.151
Oct 15 22:42:33 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=211.78.162.151
Oct 15 22:43:28 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=66.249.91.104 : Google
Oct 15 22:43:29 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=66.249.91.104
Oct 15 22:43:30 kernel: DROP IN=br0 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.2.185 DST=66.249.91.104

 

Interesting.. so I'm not the only one. I thought it was something I installed from the fedora repositories or possibly it's way of checking connectivity.

I haven't seen the other one (yet), just google. It does the initial DNS lookup and pings whatever comes back about twice a min.

Another weird thing. It will occasionally start blasting out ARP requests to my router as fast as it can.

 

The pings appear to be caused by the 'update-notifier' program.

If you type 'top' in a terminal, you might catch it in the window, along with its pid number. Then type 'kill xxxx' where xxxx is the pid number of update-notifier.

Or you could type 'killall update-notifier' in a terminal, the pings should stop then.

Now we need to hack the startup scripts to stop this program running. Anyone know how to??

 

Furthermore, when you run the 'Live Update' program, it pings google.

So I'm guessing that update-notifier is running the Live Update program regularly, which in turn pings google!

 

You guys are awesome!

slbm,
The startup scripts are in /etc/rc5.d/ (for run level 5) files starting with a 'S' will start and 'K' for kill. I poked around in there but didn't find anything.

The fix I used is kind of a kludge but it worked. I typed 'whereis update-notifier' and then changed the names of the files to 'no-update-notifier' (it can't load what it can't find) and after a reboot success!

Thanks!