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Offline derBene

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Aquaria phones home?
« on: January 01, 2008, 09:53:35 pm »
My Aquaria version wanted to send an ICMP-message to 81.173.155.214. Why?
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2008, 10:03:54 pm »
No, it doesn't phone anything.
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2008, 11:15:28 pm »
Thanks. Sounds like I should be worried now.
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2008, 11:24:05 pm »
***Zam hands out tinfoil hats***

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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #4 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.
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2008, 06:32:19 pm »
Quote from: 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.
I guess NetCologne GmbH is your provider derBene?
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #6 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.
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #7 on: January 06, 2008, 07:12:26 pm »
Quote from: Xiagan on January 05, 2008, 06:32:19 pm
Quote from: 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.
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).
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Re: Aquaria phones home?
« Reply #8 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).
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