Gnucash access to internet when starting up

[Nathan Buchanan]

Hi Richard,
On Jan 1, 2008 9:34 AM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> > You don't mention whether you re-downloaded the exe or verified the
> > checksum. I'd like to verify that you have the correct files. The
> > specific files affected are the three files attached to comment #98 of
> > the bug report.
> > libORBit-2-0.dll at 327,168 bytes
> > libORBitCosNaming-2-0.dll at 18,432 bytes
> > libORBit-imodule-2-0.dll at 39,424 bytes
> > These files (with these sizes) should exist in your C:\Program
> > Files\gnucash\bin directory.
> >
> > Could you confirm that these are the files you have on your
> > installation? If they are, then it appears that this bug still needs
> > more attention. If not, you can either re-download the installer or take
> > the above three files from comment #98 and use those.
>
> I re-downloaded the gnucash-2.2.2-setup.exe file and installed it after
> having uninstaled gnucash first. I checked the md5 hash against
> gnucash-2.2.2-setup.md5 and got a match.
>
> I can also confirm that the size of the files libORBit-2-0.dll,
> libORBitCosNaming-2-0.dll and libORBit-imodule-2-0.dll are as specified
> above and are in the C:\Program Files\gnucash\bin directory.


Well, you definitely have the everything where it is supposed to be. What
isn't great is that you're still seeing something.

To be honest, I've been trying to duplicate the accesses you are describing,
but I'm coming up completely empty. It may be ORBit2 trying to find out the
IP address of your machine by asking your isp's DNS/(pop, too?) server.
(probably asking based on your DHCP assigned hostname, as assigned by your
isp.) Unfortunately, this is my best theory at this time (being unable to
duplicate the problem myself).

What I can say is that what you describe (DNS lookups) is irritating but
should be completely harmless, and probably unnecessary. (The other
connections - to localhost - should be going to gconfd-2, which is
responsible for saving your settings.)

I'll add your report of additional DNS lookups to the bug report.


> Gnucash is not displaying any errors when starting up but still tries to
> connect to the internet. As I stated in my reply to Beth, this is in
> most cases the ip address of my isp's pop server but occaisionally it
> differs. The last time I started gnucash it tried to connect to an ebay
> server.
>
> There is mention in the bug report that when gnucash is denied access to
> the external ip address that problems are then experienced when making
> changes to the configuration. I take it that this refers to changes to
> the preferences via Edit->Preferences. If this is the case, I have not
> experienced any problems in this area. I have managed to make changes to
> the preferences without receiving any errors. In fact I have not yet
> experienced any detrimental effects by denying gnucash-bin.exe access to
> the internet.


>
> I've noticed that there are two entries in the Zonealarm program table
> for gconfd-2.exe. The one in ...gnucash\bin (98283 bytes) requires
> localhost access but the one in ...gnucash\libexec (440290 bytes)
> doesn't. This may not be a problem.

sounds ok to me (the gconf-2 in libexec calls the one in bin)

Nathan

>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.
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