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 |
