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I have little snitch installed and every time I resume my macbook pro gs-loc.apple.com on port 443 wants to connect. I'm thinking it's to find your location so that iCloud can display it. the exec is called locationd. I pretty sure that my guess is right. I just wanted to see what the community thought.

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Yep, it’s Location Services. The location is updated on a regular interval, or when an app requests it.

I worked it out while using Little Snitch, just like you. As there was a loc in the domain name, I figured it would be Location Services.

To confirm, I turned off Location Services, and sure enough, locationd shut down and no connections to gs-loc were made. To confirm again, I blocked gs-loc, and Location Services stopped working.

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It would greatly improve the answer if you could add a reference for this (if any exists at all). – patrix♦ Sep 10 '12 at 14:33
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Well this is a pretty hidden thing and I found it out while using Little Snitch, just like the OP. As there was a “loc” in the domain name, I figured it would be Location Services. To confirm, I turned off Location Services, and sure enough, locationd shut down and no connections to gs-loc were made. To confirm again, I blocked gs-loc, and Location Services stopped working. – duci9y Sep 10 '12 at 15:10
thanks for your answer. helped out greatly. – Throdne Sep 10 '12 at 20:33
You’re welcome. – duci9y Sep 11 '12 at 8:43

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