Hi there!
Alexandro Colorado wrote:
[... snip ...] The behavior however that I couldn't explain was the one that happens when you start OOo. Since I dont use any firewall I couldn't duplicate it and verify it, but I did know people that duplicate and verify that OOo makes calls to the internet (or scans for it) everytime it gets boot up. This was some time ago (1 year) so I am not sure if we have eliminate this unnecesarry behavior.
If I recall it correctly the reason for this was that OOo was just "only!" simply asking the system for it�s hostname on startup. Unfortunatly that system library call in turn on Windows caused the OS to initialize the internet connectivity with the ISP if it was not already online. Users than tought OOo would be trying to send something over the internet, as that was what it looked liked from the messages they got form their firewall, but that was not really true all OOo wanted was to get the hostname from Windows. I would blame it on the OS to not being able to answer that question without also having established a connection to the internet service provider.
And YES, this "unnecessary" behavior has been eliminated in OOo a long time ago.
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/
Kind regards, Bernd Eilers
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