Gnucash access to internet when starting up

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:32:40 +0000 Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> > The exe first released after the announcement (and was up for about 20 
> > hours or so) didn't include the fix to this problem that 2.2.2 was 
> > supposed to include. If you downloaded 2.2.2 the day it was released, 
> > could you please re-download it and re-install it from the new exe?
> > 
> > The new exe has a md5sum of db243c367c2238038c46f2a9c3eaf15d
> 
> I've reinstalled following an uninstall just to be sure. Gnucash is 
> still trying to access the internet but when I deny it access it does 
> not seem to report the error, yet. I'll report back if it does.
> 
> However I still don't see why gnucash-bin.exe needs to access the 
> internet. It starts by requesting access to 127.0.0.1:Port 1734 (the 
> port number varies) which I allow. gconfd-2.exe then requests access to 
> 127.0.0.1:Port 1742 (the port number varies) which I also allow but then 
> gnucash-bin.exe requests access to 81.103.221.14:53 (this port seems to 
> stay the same) which I am denying. This ip address belongs to NTL which 
> is my ISP. On further investigation this is the ip address of my ISP's 
> pop email server???

Port 53 is the DNS server.  Someone is probably doing a hostname resolution.

> 
> > This was http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363648 
> > <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363648>
> 
> The bug report relates to the CORBA comms error that I was getting but 
> doesn't explain why gnucash would otherwise be trying to access the 
> internet.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard.
> 
> > On Dec 30, 2007 4:47 PM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com 
> > <mailto:rullger at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I am using Gnucash v2.2.2 r16676 on Windows XP with all updates (apart
> >     from IE7).
> > 
> >     Does anyone know why Gnucash tries to access the internet when starting
> >     up. I am just setting up my personal accounts from Quicken and have not
> >     got round to setting up the updating of stock prices, so I can't see any
> >     need for internet access.
> > 
> >     If I deny Gnucash access to the internet it sometimes, but not always,
> >     gives the following error:
> > 
> >     'An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for
> >     gnucash. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
> > 
> >     Adding client to server's list failed, CORBA error:
> >     IDL: omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> >     <http://omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0>'.
> > 
> >     If I allow Gnucash to access the internet, it never gives an error.
> > 
> >     The ip address Gnucash tries to access varies. Looking these up on a
> >     whois server they include, OMG, Google, NTL (possibly related to my ISP
> >     but not DNS servers).
> > 
> >     I've tried searching the archives but have not been able to find any
> >     postings relating to this subject.
> > 
> >     Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> >     Regards,
> > 
> >     Richard.
> > 
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