Why is Google Chrome pinging "mdioussrvd" and other random hosts that don't resolve? [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers.

---

Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow.

Closed 11 years ago.

Improve this question

I notice when I start up Google Chrome it makes a few bad requests to random host names, such as mdioussrvd, azwvtdbpjh, and lblhkhlklj.

I'm wondering what is causing this and/or what the purpose is. At first I thought I had a malicious extension, but I deleted my ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome folder, deleted Google Chrome, restarted the system, then re-downloaded a clean copy of the latest beta, followed by starting the application using open -n -a 'Google Chrome.app' --args --disable-extensions, only to find the same behavior with a fresh install.

The host names are random string each time the program starts. I don't have anything in my hosts file so they are showing erros, as they are not mapped to any particular IP.

I also tried running a file search with grep in both the Google Chrome.app folder as well as the Application Support/Google folder.

It doesn't matter what the homepage is set to when I start the application. It can be set as the recent tabs page or a web address somewhere. I have to be honest, this is bugging me a little. Does anyone have any thoughts on what tools to use to figure this out?

If you want to see if your install of Google Chrome is doing this, try Charles Web Proxy. It's what I'm using - a great debugging tool and, 8mb in size.

update

Same thing happens on Windows XP with the latest (non beta) version of Google Chrome. The homepage is set to the tabs page, no extensions are installed, and all I do is start the browser. The results:

And here is Chromium on Mac OS X 10.6.7 with no homepage:

Can somebody who develops with the Chromium Projects explain this please?

note

I also see a vote to close this - why? I'm trying to trace / debug this and I believe it is relavant to software development and programming. Furthermore if I'm correct开发者_运维技巧 this affects a large number of people and warrants an answer.