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

[Allen Edwards]

On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 9:43 PM Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> 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.
> _______________________________________________
>

I was wondering if this could be Myth looking up schedule information.

Allen
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