Gnucash access to internet when starting up

[Nathan Buchanan]

Hi Richard!
On Jan 27, 2008 3:10 PM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying.
>
> I've taken a look at the bug report and notice that the bug has been
> resolved and a patch has been released to fix the problem.


This patch was in Gnucash 2.2.3 as per comment #105, unfortunately you're
still seeing a DNS lookup that we are not.

>
>
> Do you know when the patch will be available for Windows?
>
> With reference to comment #106, The DNS servers are those of my ISP. I
> obtained this info from ipconfig -all as ipstat didn't work on my machine.
>
> I haven't managed to sus out ethereal yet. I'm running it on my wireless
> laptop and it can't find any network traffic. That's something I'll have
> to look into.


If you could, that would be great. Hopefully ethereal will be able to tell
us the full text of the DNS request.

Nathan


> If the fix for Windows isn't too far off I'll wait and see
> if the problem's fixed.
>
> Regards
>
> Nathan Buchanan wrote:
> > Hi Richard!
> >
> > There was a comment added to
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363648 with a few more ideas
> > on how to diagnose this problem. I'm sending you this mail because I
> > noticed that you aren't on the cc list for the bug.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > On Jan 14, 2008 4:37 PM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com
> > <mailto:rullger at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Andreas,
> >
> >     I did as you said. On starting gnucash I got an error message box
> with
> >     the error 'The application has failed to start because libofx-3.dllwas
> >     not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.'. The
> >     box
> >     title bar displays 'gnucash-bin.exe - Unable To Locate Component'.
> >
> >     On clicking Ok, gnucash proceeded to start and still requested
> access to
> >     the internet.
> >
> >     Regards,
> >
> >     Richard.
> >
> >     Andreas Köhler wrote:
> >      > Hi Richard,
> >      >
> >      > Am Sonntag, den 30.12.2007, 21:47 +0000 schrieb Richard Ullger:
> >      >> 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.
> >      >
> >      > may you do me a favor and move bin\libofx-3.dll temporarily to
> >     another
> >      > location and restart GnuCash?
> >      >
> >      > Just a wild guess.
> >      >
> >      > Thanks,
> >      > -- andi5
> >      >
> >      >
> >      >
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