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Yes - anything that doesn't need to be accessing the internet. Plus Google things that phone home. It's fun to watch them get frustrated and light up red in the activity monitor as they desperately try to send back metrics.


If you use Google as your DNS server, sometimes various Google services will just send the same requests over port 53 to 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 instead of the normal IP.




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