Strange appearance of a new Network Neighborhood

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Strange appearance of a new Network Neighborhood

Hi all,

I just opened up my "Shared" section in the finder, about to go to the hard disk on my other computer and, lo, there's a network neighborhood there that I've never seen or heard of. (This is a desktop mac connected to the internet through a NAT router with firewall options on.)

The "Neighborhood" that is sitting there is

e3381.b.akamaiedge.net

I've searched the discussion forums and have seen reference to akamaiedge.net in relation to "Back to My Mac" (Which I'm not using). But even if I was using it, should I see this neighborhood in the finder at all?

Any clues as to how my computer found this network, and why it might be showing it to me? Should I worry about an intrusion?

Thanks
Kirk

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Apr 28, 2010 10:06 AM

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Kirk Author

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May 1, 2010 11:57 AM in response to Kirk

Update

Now, several days later, the following network neighborhoods have appeared.

aosnotify.me.com
idisk.me.com.akadns.net
e3430.b.akamaiedge.net

These clearly have to do with dot-me services.

But the question remains. Why are they showing up as network neighborhoods in the finder?

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mb852

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May 3, 2010 7:16 PM in response to Kirk

This showed up for me too. How do I get rid of it?

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mb852

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May 3, 2010 7:46 PM in response to mb852

I figured it out.....delete your browser cookies, reset your router/modem.....done

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Kirk Author

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May 4, 2010 6:59 AM in response to mb852

I run a little shell script when I need to clear caches:

(I forget why sync is needed, somebody smarter than me suggested it, and said it should be done twice, but he also deleted swap files, perhaps it had something to do with that...)

file: cleancache.command

#! /bin/bash
sudo rm -Rf /Library/Caches;
sudo rm -Rf /System/Library/Caches;
sudo rm -Rf ~/Library/Caches;
sudo sync;
sudo sync;
sudo reboot

Doing this got rid of the artifacts in the Finder for me also.

But I want to know why they appeared in the first place. Do I have a flaw in my network setup that is allowing/causing this to happen? Is it a security concern?

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direwolf8

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May 4, 2010 8:48 AM in response to Kirk

the sync; (twice) is an old habit from when Unix filesystems were less robust. It just makes sure that all the write caches are flushed and the disks are sync'd with any pending changes. It's really not necessary very often anymore, and certainly not twice in a row!

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