The Globus Team has a policy of collecting usage statistics from all installations of Globus. The version of Globus on this roll is configured by default to opt-in for this reporting from your system. If you wish to opt-out of this you must reconfigure the firewall rules on your frontend. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/iptable and a new DROP in the following section of the file.
*filter :INPUT ACCEPT [0:0] :FORWARD DROP [0:0] :OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0] # Preamble -A FORWARD -i eth1 -o eth0 -m state --state NEW,RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i eth0 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT # Disable Globus Usage Statistics Reporting from this host -A OUTPUT -d usage-stats.globus.org -j DROP |