Lauritz Vesteraas Thaulow spake unto us the following wisdom: > There's a little group of people on the Ubuntu forums wondering why > pidgin regularly uploads a sizeable amount of data to the msn servers, > even when not chatting with anyone.
One of the more MSN-savvy devs will have to comment on this, but I
suspect it is related to our known inefficient buddy list transfers on
MSN.
> Quoting one poster:
>
> "wireshark says i'm sending and recieveing lots of msnms packets
> between me and 207.46.124.52 which will lookup to
> by2msg4010605.phx.gbl.
Note that this is an MSN address, they're just incompetent, among
other things, to configure their DNS. Other addresses in this block
(e.g., 207.46.124.2) resolve to msn.net addresses.
Ethan
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