On 6/29/2016 10:20 AM, Jannah Jankowski wrote:
Why does Firefox not respect the HOSTS file in Windows?
http://i.cubeupload.com/P0jKaY.jpg
In my hosts file are entries to block sites that show up as connections
that Firefox makes, even when Firefox is in SAFE MODE.
How can that be possible?
1. I add an entry to the Windows hosts file and SAVE it.
2. I start Firefox in SAFE mode.
3. Firefox _still_ shows up as "ESTABLISHED" to that rogue site.
How can that possibly be that Firefox doesn't respect the hosts file?
Where do these rogue connections come from anyway?
http://i.cubeupload.com/T274r0.jpg
------------------ Here are just the first six of amazonaws --------
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-25-189-162.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-52-26-2-199.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-148-80-75.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-213-112-246.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-213-123-171.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox
safemode
127.0.0.1 ec2-54-69-9-44.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com # firefox safemode
------------------ Here are just the first six of cloudfront --------
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-10.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-129.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-141.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-205.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-28.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
127.0.0.1 server-52-84-24-7.sea32.r.cloudfront.net # firefox safemode
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Post your question (and any other Firefox qeustions) to the
mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup on the news.mozilla.org news server.
Accounts at news.mozilla.org are free and quite easy to setup.
This might be bug #705483 at
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705483. If not, consider
submitting a new bug report. The product would be Core; the component
would be Networking.
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