I have permanent connections to Canonical servers, what are they for?

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Published on 2012-05-11T17:33:44Z Indexed on 2012/10/21 5:27 UTC
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After the recent upgrade to 12, I notice permanent connections to canonical servers.

Running netstat -tp gives:

Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name

mulberry.canonical:http CLOSE_WAIT  6537/ubuntu-geoip-p

alkes.canonical.co:http CLOSE_WAIT  6667/python     

alkes.canonical.co:http CLOSE_WAIT  6667/python

Why are there permanent connections and how could I stop this behavior?

And if this is intentional, who is responsible?

I would like to understand why this was done because to me it seems like a bad idea.

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