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sleepeyNZ

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#272735 13-Nov-2009 13:51

Ashka - so your T-Stick is using constant bandwidth? Was it doing that when you were running leopard?

honem

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#272928 14-Nov-2009 05:10

http://whois.domaintools.com/202.27.156.72
http://whois.domaintools.com/202.27.158.40

Resolves to dnsc1.xtra.co.nz & dnsc2.xtra.co.nz

According to http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers Port 53 is TCP DNS

So it's definitely some sort of DNS inquiry thing.

It's just odd that it's coming up so often. I don't see any entries like yours on my Imac. Wired Broadband tho.

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stevenz

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#278524 1-Dec-2009 22:26

The T-Stick won't be made by Telecom, see if you can work out who actually produces the thing and see if there's any newer software for it. Sounds like a repeat of the horrible problems the original Vodem had with OS X.

You could try looking into putting a caching DNS server on the local machine and pointing the modem at that instead, a bit of a hassle but it may help.

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Ashka

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#278632 2-Dec-2009 08:50

There's an update for the TStick for Windows 7 but not for OSX 10.6 http://www.zte.co.nz/main/Product_Downloads/MF636_downloads.htm

From Telecom:
The Firewall traffic that you see is normal as this is the Mac
> communicating to Xtra DNS servers. This is required for translating
> website address to IP address to find where a website is.
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I personally would not call over 4000 messages an hour to Console from the Telecom Connection Manager normal either but that is still happening and was the same with Leopard. Telecom didn't reply to that part of the question.

The 1 KB per second upload is still happening and I'm 99% sure it was the same with Leopard.. Uploads are not being charged for till end of January so hope they have it fixed by then.
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What with the over 3 months of hassles trying to set up a Direct debit to pay Telecoms bill ~ Given up..
Usage meter 6 days late at the beginning of Nov which took three days to fix then it was 3 days late two days ago.
Usage meter is also set for 3 Gb rather than the 4 Gb I changed to during the usage period before last.

No doubt if anything else can go wrong it will..

Just getting P..... Off.

sleepeyNZ

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#278641 2-Dec-2009 09:22

Well I am moving house soon and will finally be able to get dsl again.. So this is a moot point for me now :)

consolation

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#283350 17-Dec-2009 09:47

I got the Tstick given away by XT to their broadband customers inc. 500MB/$29 prepay. It's advertised as OSX compatible; however, it's a sad joke; the Telecom Connection manager constantly writes messages to Console generating pages and pages of crap and there's a constant traffic of about 2KB/s from mDNSresponder to Telecom's dns servers (202.27.156.72 & 202.27.158.40) - blocking this traffic stops DNS resolving. However, it's completely unnecessary when you are not accessing a new page/service. This makes the Tstick unusable as a 500MB allowance will be burned up very quickly just through unnecessary DNS server access.

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#283360 17-Dec-2009 10:09

While you guys were discussing, someone else posted a trace, and Telecom found what's the DNS traffic about. It's a two fold problem: Mac OS being dumb, and the Telecom DNS being dumb.

Here is the other discussion.

Also note Telecom says DNS traffic to their own servers is not counted.

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