DNS access on startup [WAS: Re: Split transaction]

[Josh Sled]

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"Edward Mellor" <epmellor at googlemail.com> writes:
> Many thanks for your answer, I changed the view to Basic Ledger mode and was able to carry on with the tutorial.

Great.

> Perhaps you can answer another question. When starting Gnucash it asks for permission to access a DNS server on the internet. However, the address is different each time. I, like a lot of people,
> would be nervous about entering personal information that could be transmitted across the web. I note that the program warns of a fault if permission is refused. Could you tell me who it is trying
> to contact and why?

Are you on Windows?  I believe this is a known issue with gconf, but I can't
seem to find the bug number or a good URL for the issue at the moment.
Hopefully someone else has it handy.

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