Gnucash access to internet when starting up

[Richard Ullger]

Hi,

I've installed the latest version of Wireshark. I am running Win XP with 
all updates (apart from IE7) and gnucash 2.2.3 on a centrino laptop. I 
tried the test using both the wireless adapter and the wired lan connection.

I ensured that as many programs as possible that generate network 
traffic were shut down. Zonealarm is configured to ask for permission to 
allow gnucash to access both the trusted zone and the internet.

I started gnucash and Zonealarm advised me that gnucash-bin.exe was 
trying to access the trusted zone, which I allowed. Zonealarm then 
advised that gnucash-bin.exe was trying to access the internet, which I 
also allowed. At no time was there any network activity displayed in 
Wireshark. It made no difference if Zonealarm was configured to allow 
gnucash access to the internet.

Opening the price editor and clicking on get quotes produced the 
expected network traffic (after allowing access in Zonalarm) as did 
starting up my email client (which was already granted access in Zonealarm).

Not knowing how Zonealarm controls network access I can't comment on 
what is happening.

Regards

Richard.


Josh Sled wrote:
> "Nathan Buchanan" <nbinont at gmail.com> writes:
>> On Jan 27, 2008 3:10 PM, Richard Ullger <rullger at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> Note that "ethereal" has been called "wireshark" for a year and a half, now.
>