CBS350-8T-E-2G Switch Requests ".deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com"

[coalbl4ck]

Hi,

i am new to CISCO equipment.

In my setup i have a CBS350-8T-E-2G connected to an OPNsense firewall.

Now, the switch sends requests to '2.17.186.22:80'.

According to ipinfo.io this IP belongs to Akami Technologies, which is  a CDN.

This came to my attention, since the requests were flagged by OPNsense as Unsupported/Fake Windows NT version and Unsupported/ Fake Internet Explorer version.

I have blocked these requests and now they happen every 4 minutes.

Obviously i am not too happy about this, but couldn't find anything with google on this topic.

I am currently left with two questions:

1. Why is the switch even requesting data from WAN?

2. How do I disable it?

(My switch is running the latest OS version.)

[Ann69]

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@coalbl4ck wrote: Kroger eSchedule

Hi,

i am new to CISCO equipment.

In my setup i have a CBS350-8T-E-2G connected to an OPNsense firewall.

Now, the switch sends requests to '2.17.186.22:80'.

According to ipinfo.io this IP belongs to Akami Technologies, which is  a CDN.

This came to my attention, since the requests were flagged by OPNsense as Unsupported/Fake Windows NT version and Unsupported/ Fake Internet Explorer version.

I have blocked these requests and now they happen every 4 minutes.

Obviously i am not too happy about this, but couldn't find anything with google on this topic.

I am currently left with two questions:

1. Why is the switch even requesting data from WAN?

2. How do I disable it?

(My switch is running the latest OS version.)

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Akamai runs what's probably the world's largest set of caching servers. It wouldn't be malicious in itself. Microsoft's probably using it to handle a large chunk of Windows10 i/o - updates, telemetry.

[coalbl4ck]

Thanks for your input.

Unfortunately  that's not it.

I don't have any Windows systems and the requests come directly from the switch's IP.