On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:30, Sven Knuth wrote:

> I started the nodes.js self test with "make test". ( I think it is an self 
> test, because I didn't found a description of the test)
> 
> And what happens then? It is testing and everything is fine. At one point, 
> the python script tools/test.py (the script started by "make test") is 
> sending request on port 1 (TCPMUX) to more than 500 different IPs in less 
> than 3 seconds.
> That were IPs of the DOD, a japanese bank, IBM, universities, ... 
> 
> I am still not able to find out why this happens.
> I tested it more than 5 times with the code found here 
> https://github.com/joyent/node.git
> 
> I think it is a strange behaviour and I can't imagine that this is wanted.

Are you sure that you don't have a compromised (malicious) python binary 
installed (or a python module that the test script uses, or some other program 
that gets called) which might be responsible for this behavior? The nodejs 
source code is of course open for you to inspect to convince yourself that it's 
not the culprit.

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