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Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?

Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
but none addressing the problem I have.

When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
but they always time out.

Any ideas?

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Jordon

On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:14:09 -0800, Jordon wrote:

> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>
> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a host
> called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I find it's
> owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it but none addressing
> the problem I have.
>
> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I have no
> http access to anything outside of my local network. Email works.
> Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different browsers (FF, Seamonkey
> and Internet Exploder), I'll see a connection to the sites I'm trying to
> go to on the status bar, but they always time out.
>
> Any ideas?

Google



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Evan Platt wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:14:09 -0800, Jordon
> <jordon@REMOVE~THISmyrealbox.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>>
>> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
>> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
>> host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
>> find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
>> but none addressing the problem I have.
>>
>> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
>> have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
>> Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
>> browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
>> connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
>> but they always time out.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> How are you blocking it? The whole /16, or something else?

My router can block entire domains and I blocked 1e1003net for
a specific profile (the router can have 4 profiles based on MAC
address). Everyone with that profile can't surf the web. As
soon as I delete the filter, it's back to normal.

> In IE, do you have anything set for Proxy? (Tools, Internet Options,
> Connections, LAN Settings), or in Start, Control Panel, Internet
> Options, depending on O/S?

No proxies.

> Can you ping say www.craigslist.org ? Can you go to
> http://208.82.236.208 ?

Yep. I can ping anything but using the IP, it won't connect. But
I just discovered something new. When I have 1e100.net blocked, I
can connect to any https site and it's only http that's being
blocked.

On 2010-12-24, Jordon <jordon@REMOVE~THISmyrealbox.com> wrote:
>
> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>
> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
> host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
> find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
> but none addressing the problem I have.
>
> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
> have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
> Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
> browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
> connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
> but they always time out.
>
> Any ideas?

<http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-mysterious-1e100-net/> implicates the
"Safe Browsing" feature of Firefox (and thus I suppose Seamonkey too?)
which routes all web page requests via a Google server to check the "bad"
sites list there. If you block the domain where that server lives, your
web page requests will stall waiting for a response that will never
arrive. Perhaps IE's "SmartScreen filter" also needs access to the same
server?

As it's a Google domain, anything to do with Google might need access to
it - including automatic updates of any Google software or 'toolbars' you
might have installed.

(Why Google couldn't use sane domain names such as
"badwebsites.google.com" or "updates.googleearth.com" only Google knows).

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On 12/24/2010 11:56 AM, Whiskers wrote:
> On 2010-12-24, Jordon<jordon@REMOVE~THISmyrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>>
>> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
>> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
>> host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
>> find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
>> but none addressing the problem I have.
>>
>> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
>> have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
>> Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
>> browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
>> connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
>> but they always time out.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> <http://www.pcmech.com/article/the-mysterious-1e100-net/> implicates the
> "Safe Browsing" feature of Firefox (and thus I suppose Seamonkey too?)
> which routes all web page requests via a Google server to check the "bad"
> sites list there. If you block the domain where that server lives, your
> web page requests will stall waiting for a response that will never
> arrive. Perhaps IE's "SmartScreen filter" also needs access to the same
> server?

But it's an old version of IE. The affected computer is running
Win2K which is stuck with IE6.

> As it's a Google domain, anything to do with Google might need access to
> it - including automatic updates of any Google software or 'toolbars' you
> might have installed.

I never install tool bars. And it affects all web sites using
http. Https on the other hand, works just fine.

> (Why Google couldn't use sane domain names such as
> "badwebsites.google.com" or "updates.googleearth.com" only Google knows).

I think 1e100 is a representation of a googol, which is a 1
followed by 100 zeros.

Jordon wrote:

> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>
> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
> host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
> find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
> but none addressing the problem I have.
>
> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
> have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
> Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
> browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
> connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
> but they always time out.
>
> Any ideas?

A freebie program that you use is adware. It connects back to its own
web site to pipe through the Google crap or has the Google ads go
directly to some panel or display area in the adware program.

You never bothered to identify "WhatsRunning". It isn't available as a
download from download.com, softpedia.com, or brothersoft.com. A Google
on it turns up http://www.whatsrunning.com/.

Another search on "What's Running" (2 words, not the 1 word you showed)
did find downloads at download.com. CNet is notorious for not identify
adware. They list this as "Price: Free". That doesn't mean it is true
freeware (i.e., unfettered in all ways, including free from ads or
marketing sites wanting to collect statistics). I then found "What's
Running" on Softpedia who usually but not always gets it right regarding
adware. They list this program as freeware.

If you see no ads in any window (dialog, config, popup, etc) for the
program, and you are sure that it isn't reporting usage statistics to
Google, then you'll have to ask the developer why their product is
making surpetitious connections to place it naught.

And just HOW do you know that it is this program's process(es) that are
connection to 1e100.net? Are you using SysInternals' TCPview,
SmartSniff, Wireshark, or another port monitoring program that shows
which process has which ports connected (local and remote) and to where?
Are you using something other than What's Running to list the network
connections (to verify what it says is what something also says)?

Does the program's EULA hint at some association to Google? You sure it
is What's Running (it processes) that are making the connects to Google
and not something in your web browser, like the Google Toolbar?

I did a search on "1e100" in their forum (actually a private Google
Group) and got no hits. You could ask there to see if anyone else
notices the connects to Google when they run this program. Don't expect
much response there, however, as it is a rather dead group. Their
Support Forum link goes to a private Google Group. The forum link in
the FAQ page goes to http://www.bbfun.com/?mforum=whatsrunning. That's
a dead site snatched up by a domain squatter. So do you really want to
be using this software when its author pretends to have forums but
really doesn't? After drilling around for awhile, I found their contact
web form (http://www.whatsrunning.net/contact.aspx). You could ask the
author why there are connects to Google when using his software. If you
don't get a response, well, that's another red flag.

Jordon wrote:

> I think 1e100 is a representation of a googol, which is a 1
> followed by 100 zeros.

Except it seems to me that it should be 10e100 if what follows the 'e'
is supposed to be the exponent. That is, 10^100 (10 exponent 100) is a
googol, 1 with 100 zeros.

1^100 is still just 1.


--
Mike Easter

"Mike Easter" wrote
> Jordon wrote:
>
>> I think 1e100 is a representation of a googol, which is a 1
>> followed by 100 zeros.
>
> Except it seems to me that it should be 10e100 if what follows the 'e'
> is supposed to be the exponent. That is, 10^100 (10 exponent 100) is
> a googol, 1 with 100 zeros.
>
> 1^100 is still just 1.

And 100^1 is still just 100.

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VanguardLH wrote:
> Jordon wrote:
>
>> Anyone know anything about 1e100.net?
>>
>> Today I was trying to diagnose high CPU usage and was running
>> WhatsRunning. I noticed that I had a few http connections to a
>> host called pz-in-f147.1e100.net. When I look up that domain I
>> find it's owned by Google. There's quite a bit of info on it
>> but none addressing the problem I have.
>>
>> When I block all access to 1e100.net in my router/firewall I
>> have no http access to anything outside of my local network.
>> Email works. Newsgroups work. Web's broken. Using 3 different
>> browsers (FF, Seamonkey and Internet Exploder), I'll see a
>> connection to the sites I'm trying to go to on the status bar,
>> but they always time out.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> A freebie program that you use is adware. It connects back to its own
> web site to pipe through the Google crap or has the Google ads go
> directly to some panel or display area in the adware program.

Haven't we had this conversation before?

<http://www.whatsrunning.net/>