Gnucash access to internet when starting up
Richard Ullger
rullger at ntlworld.com
Thu Jan 3 18:58:00 EST 2008
Thanks Nathan.
Richard.
> 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.
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