strange outgoing web request to samplecorporation.com from tiki every time a user logs in?
I recently set up TikiWiki, and it was running fine. Just recently, however, I and my users noticed that when logging in, it would take several minutes before a response came back. Upon further investigation, I discovered that every time I request a page from the tiki site, an httpd process (I'm running apache 2.0.50 on Linux) would try to make an outgoing tcp connection to samplecorporation.com:80. My site can't reach that host (outgoing syn packets don't get a response), so the connection timing out was what caused the site delays. To further verify this, I've set up an iptables firewall rule to automatically reject any outgoing connection to samplecorporation.com:80, and that has solved my problem (the site is responsive now). The problem still obviously is, that this is a ridiculous hack... I'd like to know why my tiki site is attempting this connection in the first place. I've grepped through the files for the entire site, and I see no references to the string "samplecorporation" or its IP. Does anyone have any clue as to what is going on here?