[mythtv-users] Why is MythTV sending data out to some servers out there?
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Sun Apr 5 05:57:51 UTC 2020
On Sat, 4 Apr 2020 21:48:01 -0700, you wrote:
>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
If it is using EIT data only for the EPG, no. But if it is allowed to
look up metadata, that could be what it is.
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