[Resolved] Netstat - Lots of open ports to amazon cloud

[Paul Cousins]

Found this via netstat:

tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37538 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:59636 ec2-34-213-143-119.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37546 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37536 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:59640 ec2-34-213-143-119.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:59650 ec2-34-213-143-119.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:59632 ec2-34-213-143-119.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:59646 ec2-34-213-143-119.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37542 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37532 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 192.168.14.20:37528 ec2-52-32-17-28.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com:www TIME_WAIT

Can anyone tell me how relevant/what these connections are, and for security purposes can they be disabled?

[brolly759]

haha, you are doing the same thing I did. So all the connections are actually related to the Onion cloud.

you can stop the service and you will see the connections slowly disconnect and remove. If you reboot, the service will come back online. I deleted the service completely as I didn't want / need the Onion cloud.

Stop service:
service device-client stop

Delete service:
opkg remove device-client
reboot

After the reboot you shouldn't see the connections anymore. I actually removed most of the services pre-installed on the Onion.

[Paul Cousins]

@brolly759 - that worked! thank you! :))