[mythtv-users] Why is MythTV sending data out to some servers out there?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 17:28:49 -0400, you wrote:

>
>I'm noticing that the network interface is sending and receiving data in the
>range of 15 to 40 KiB/s while I'm doing nothing internet related.  So I
>install ntopng, learn how to use it and it tells me that MythTV is in contact
>with some web sites:
>
>L4 Proto	Client				Server
>UDP		MythTV on <my host name>	178.62.234.39:21873
>UDP		51.255.171.145:18746		MythTV on <my host name>:17759
>
>There are many other lines like this where MythTV is mentioned, mostly UDP
>but also some TCP, but these two are the ones with the most data throughput.
>
>The application column says "Unknown" in all cases.
>
>What is going on here?  How can I stop this behavior?  I am only using EIT
>for programming info.

The only external thing that MythTV initiates a connection to that I
know of is to report its configuration and version to a site that
aggregates that data.  But it only does that if you tell it to.

So is it possible that you have misconfigured something and have made
mythweb available to the wider Internet?  If so, the bots will have
found it and will be connecting all the time, attempting to break into
Apache and gain access to your system.  But that should show up as
access to Apache, not the MythTV executables.