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

[Nathan Buchanan]

On Nov 20, 2007 10:00 AM, Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org> wrote:

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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.
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> 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.


http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363648 I think.

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