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steve2470

(37,457 posts)
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 04:42 PM Apr 2015

Need help interpreting a netstat

Here is the background: I have a paid subscription to http://di.fm, which is an online streaming service for electronic dance music. I'm also using the Windows 10 beta. A few weeks back, DI.FM notified me that I was connecting excessively to their service and asked if I was using more than one device to connect. I replied back to customer service that I was not, that I was only using one desktop computer and using W10 beta. Since then, I've been using the free di.fm service. Yes, I can uninstall W10 and reinstall W8.1 if I really need to.

I did notify Microsoft of the exact problem, so hopefully they will fix it.

Ok, here's my current netstat while connecting to my http://di.fm paid account:



I am only connected to di.fm and DU. Microsoft might also have a connection, since I'm using W10 beta.

Thanks for your help!

Steve

P.S. I pay for the paid version for no commercials.

ETA: Reverse DNS results so far

104.16.18.80 = CloudFlare, Inc. per http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=104.16.18.80

74.121.139.108 = MediaMath Inc per http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=74.121.139.108

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Need help interpreting a netstat (Original Post) steve2470 Apr 2015 OP
You could disconnect from di.fm and redo the netstat to see what goes away. Make7 Apr 2015 #1
ok here's the latest netstat... steve2470 Apr 2015 #2
try NETSTAT -abno ChromeFoundry Apr 2015 #3
ok I did that also steve2470 Apr 2015 #4

Make7

(8,543 posts)
1. You could disconnect from di.fm and redo the netstat to see what goes away.
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 06:21 PM
Apr 2015

You can ignore all the 127.0.0.1 connections - that's the loopback address to your own computer. If you check your computer name, you'll probably discover it is WIN-297AT2QPODG.

Not sure how one determines the actual foreign address from that netstat info. Try netstat -f or netstat -n (or netstat /? to see all the options).

I usually use Wireshark to sniff out network traffic - it lets you view each packet on a selected network adapter. You can see what IP address the packets are coming from/going to - then use those addresses to do reverse IP lookups and (hopefully) find out who is on the other end.


BTW - For those links to dnsstuff.com, you can replace the | with %7C to make the full link work. Like this:

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=104.16.18.80

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
2. ok here's the latest netstat...
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 07:05 PM
Apr 2015


That one is done with all browsers closed. Yes, the WIN-297AT2QPODG is my computer.

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=24.143.206.192 = Time Warner Cable LLC

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=134.170.189.4 = Microsoft

http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#whois%7Ctype=ipv4&&value=111.221.29.11 = Microsoft

windows.com = Microsoft

eta: I'm probably concerned over nothing. I've been running the premium service for a few hours now and DI.FM has not contacted me via email, as they did last time. I'm thinking Microsoft fixed the problem.

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
3. try NETSTAT -abno
Sun Apr 5, 2015, 07:50 PM
Apr 2015

That should give you all the connections, the numerical foreign host address, the process Id and the owning application.

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