technical issue Why is pony.fm trying to reach out to my PC on here?

[Lagrangian 64]

(I'm not sure what's considered too complex such that it requires an admin, but I'm not too worried, mostly just curious.)

 

I don't see pony.fm anywhere around here that makes me thing it should be sending communications to my computer, but w/e I'm on this site the IP address for pony.fm is trying to touch my PC before the connection is being aborted by something. I'd guess it has something to do with Poniverse, but sometimes the number of attempts worries me.

Relevant image: http://i.imgur.com/U0WPTUA.png?1

Edited November 25, 2014 by Lagrangian

[Twilight Sparkle ✨ 8,526]

MLP Forums and Pony.fm share the same IP address, and pony.fm just happens to be the "official" domain that IP address is registered to (the technical term for this is a "reverse DNS record").

 

As for the requests themselves, they're MLPF's notification system checking for new notifications. It does this every few seconds - it's standard behaviour.

 

What's not necessarily standard is the number of errors that the system is getting (I'll look into that), but that shouldn't affect your experience as a user.

[Lagrangian 64]

Cool, thanks for the information.