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Originally Posted by richardpl
There is no useful information at al. Post your configuration and non-default settings.....
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All settings are default - freshly installed FreeBSD 7, freshly built Firefox 3 from ports, no add-ons. Internet settings (nameserver, gateway, ip, mask) are entered by hand. The machine is behind NAT.
Nothing unusual.
Now lets sit and try to think a bit. Is there some service at FreeBSD that acts like a domain name resolver? I don't mean Bind or /etc/hosts, but something like that? The site name 'anything com' looks like an example in some configuration file, that is left behind. So: web page time out, local resolving service takes control, that service is polling that domain name from its cache/config. Is that a valuable scenario? If it is, please someone that knows well FreeBSD tell me if there could be such a service?
I've also checked for active firewall rules, diverting DNS traffic to foreign name servers, but nothing
Spyware under Unix? Really?
I've removed the links.