Good to know. Cheers. Mensaje citado por Bernd Eilers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > 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 -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
