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Aquaria => General => Topic started by: derBene on January 01, 2008, 09:53:35 pm

Title: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: derBene on January 01, 2008, 09:53:35 pm
My Aquaria version wanted to send an ICMP-message to 81.173.155.214. Why?
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: Alec on January 01, 2008, 10:03:54 pm
No, it doesn't phone anything.
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: derBene on January 01, 2008, 11:15:28 pm
Thanks. Sounds like I should be worried now.
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: Zam on January 01, 2008, 11:24:05 pm
***Zam hands out tinfoil hats***

Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: JSW on January 05, 2008, 06:12:11 pm
I did a WHOIS lookup of that IP address and apparently it's owned by an ISP in Germany.
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: Xiagan on January 05, 2008, 06:32:19 pm
I did a WHOIS lookup of that IP address and apparently it's owned by an ISP in Germany.
I guess NetCologne GmbH is your provider derBene?
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: luciferin on January 05, 2008, 08:11:52 pm
What are you using to trace this?  The only time Aquaria does anything on the internet (to my knowledge) is during activation; which may have been removed with the latest update.
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: derBene on January 06, 2008, 07:12:26 pm
I did a WHOIS lookup of that IP address and apparently it's owned by an ISP in Germany.
I guess NetCologne GmbH is your provider derBene?
Not really. I have a local provider and I don't live near cologne.

Still got no idea what that was. I would be really suprised if something had kind of pirated my version of Aquaria. That also isn't patched (v1.0.01).
Title: Re: Aquaria phones home?
Post by: luciferin on January 07, 2008, 12:25:59 am
Well, the unpatched version uses a IE based registration window.  It's likely something with that (if it only happened on the first run).