Freelance Embedded Systems Engineer
2008-10-21 20:43:49 UTC
I recently was using ProcessExplorer from Sysinternatls.com to see what processes were running with a Labview application. The tool has a TCP/IP tab, which lists a link to www.google-analytics.com:51xyz anytime I open Labview V8.6, with a status of "Listening", where xyz changes everytime that I open a new Labview session.
I'm not familar with the details of ProcessExplorer, but the documentations states:
"TCP/IP: Any active TCP and UDP endpoints owned by the process are shown on this page."
I'm just curious if anyone knows why Labview would be communicating with google-analytics? I know that google-analytics is used to collect statistics. A quick search of...goggle didn't reveal anything specific to Labview.
I've circumvent this link by adding google-analytics.com to the host table.
Under Windows that would be:
c:\Windows\System32\etc\host
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
such that www.google-analytics.com:51xyz gets mapped to 127.0.0.1:51xyz.
But I'm curious to know why it is there in the first place.
I'm not familar with the details of ProcessExplorer, but the documentations states:
"TCP/IP: Any active TCP and UDP endpoints owned by the process are shown on this page."
I'm just curious if anyone knows why Labview would be communicating with google-analytics? I know that google-analytics is used to collect statistics. A quick search of...goggle didn't reveal anything specific to Labview.
I've circumvent this link by adding google-analytics.com to the host table.
Under Windows that would be:
c:\Windows\System32\etc\host
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
such that www.google-analytics.com:51xyz gets mapped to 127.0.0.1:51xyz.
But I'm curious to know why it is there in the first place.