Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)

[Ian Waddington]

I've updated my HOSTS file on windows 7 so that localhost does equal 127.0.0.1

This makes all software behave as it did on previous versions of windows.

Those following an earlier thread about saving to mysql will recall
this separation of localhost and 127.0.0.1 was the root cause. Saving
to localhost failed whereas saving to 127.0,0.1 worked.

Updating HOSTS fixed this issue.


On 31 Dec 2010, at 09:40, Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Friday 31 December 2010, David T. wrote:
>> --- On Thu, 12/30/10, Mortimer <mortimer.hobart at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: Mortimer <mortimer.hobart at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: Gnucash 2.4.0 (Windows)
>>> To: "Cam Ellison" <cam at ellisonet.ca>
>>> Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>> Date: Thursday, December 30, 2010, 6:07 PM
>>> On 12/30/2010 18:25, Cam Ellison
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> That's rather over the top.
>>>>
>>>> Your machine's internal address is 127.0.0.1.
>>>
>>> That's a reserved
>>>
>>>> address that cannot be used anywhere else.  I
>>>
>>> think you'll find that
>>>
>>>> some applications and routines native to Windows
>>>
>>> actually make use of
>>>
>>>> it - were I you, I would not be blocking access to
>>>
>>> that address: you
>>>
>>>> are likely to screw something else up by doing
>>>
>>> so.  The many processes
>>>
>>>> in the OS and applications need to be able to talk to
>>>
>>> each other, and
>>>
>>>> that address is one of them.
>>>
>>> gnucash is the first program that has triggered any of my
>>> firewalls by
>>> asking to connect to 127.0.0.1, I have had one other
>>> program that
>>> requested to change LOCALHOST, not 127.0.0.1, so before now
>>> I had no
>>> idea that they were one and the same.
>>>
>>> All I knew is that a program that had never requested
>>> permission to use
>>> the internet was all of a sudden calling to a (presumed)
>>> remote IP,
>>> tried to block it and the program failed to run.
>>>
>>>> Asking questions is a good thing.
>>>
>>> Yes it is. Esp when you can get a straight answer w/o snide
>>> remarks. now
>>
>> Mortimer--
>>
>> Unfortunately, you've been the one with attitude in this. Gnucash is not
>> engaging in nefarious underhanded subterfuge, and we've been trying to
>> explain to you what is going on and why. YOU'VE been the one throwing up
>> smoke.
>>
>> Perhaps you might read the following.
>>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Localhost
>>
>> It clearly explains the connection between LOCALHOST and 127.0.0.1.
>>
> Unfortunately my real life experience shows this is not true for (at least
> some versions of) Microsoft Windows. For some incomprehensible reason
> Microsoft has decided localhost should refer to the IP address of your primary
> network adapter. This was also discovered in the bug that was mentioned
> earlier in this thread.
>
> This strange decision on Microsoft's behalf has caused us quite some commotion
> already...
>
> Geert
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