"locationd" wants to connect to mac-services.apple.com...

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"locationd" wants to connect to mac-services.apple.com...

Since installing SL, My Little Snitch has been alerting on:
"locationd"
wants to connect to mac-services.apple.com on TCP port 443 (https).
IP address 17.250.248.122
Reverse DNS Name mac-services.apple.com
Established by /usr/libexec/locationd
Unix PID 10768
User ID 205 _locationd

Can anyone tell me what this is? I did "man locationd" in terminal and didn't get anything...

MBP 2.6

Posted on Sep 3, 2009 9:54 AM

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Answer 1

Nov 11, 2009 12:22 PM in response to ReidRik_Von

I'm guessing its the timeset based on your location which it might do form a reverse IP lookup... but ****... thats a guess. If I don't like the smell of something on Snitch I deny first... Its always puzzled me why Apple don't pull the serial number from all macs when they do a system software check ... that would catch an awful lot of stolen Macs out there... and result in less sales... ah.

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Answer 2

pariah0

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Feb 4, 2010 9:21 AM in response to ReidRik_Von

Locationd is a daemon that provides location services for OS X's "Core Location". This uses skyhook technology to figure out your mac's location (using WiFi). It's the same system used by the iPod Touch, and is also used by the iPhone (The iPhone also uses cell tower triangulation and GPS)

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