TheCoreWithin

I was doing a packet inspect of whats going about my local network and I notice that when I browse this forum there is traffic to wowhead.com and hostgator.com.

Is one the webhost? and whats the wowhead one used for?

Just curious, I'm sure its nothing nefarious

Hostgator is the hoster, you might see the small advertisement in the top right of this forum, right below the LastVisited Date. The forum is hosted by Cyberia, she might be able to give you more details if you want.

WoWhead is used to load the item and spell scripts. Example:

Item, Spell

Dust wrote:The forum is hosted by Cyberia, she might be able to give you more details if you want.

I was always under the impression that this person was a male *hides*

Knix wrote:

Dust wrote:The forum is hosted by Cyberia, she might be able to give you more details if you want.

I was always under the impression that this person was a male *hides*

He is. theres a picture of him in one of the chamber of horror topics.

Dust always means the in-game gender.

As has been said above... hostgator is the ISP. They're based in the USA, although I can't remember which co-location this site is hosted at. I have some sites hosted in the USA but the majority are in Europe at a data centre in London.

Wowhead, we use their tagging code, occasionally it causes us issues.

Beyond that you shouldn't see any other content being loaded (unless people have pictures on the page).

Incidentally I'm not sure why your doing packet inspection .. there are tools to look at network resources that are far easier to use, firebug for one;



You can see from that one the in-ordinate amount of time it takes to load data from Dusts server there (The orange parts of the bars are the bad bits as thats the time its waiting for a response, typically between 5-10 seconds)

MEGA Pictures ftw!

Dust wrote:MEGA Pictures ftw!

Its not the size.. its the fact that ( on average) the server takes 3 seconds to respond before sending any data.

Cyberia wrote: Incidentally I'm not sure why your doing packet inspection ..

Because I'm not interested in what resources are being use, I'm more interested in what information is being passed on that I dont know about, and sometimes its interesting and unexpected what I see