On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:52, Mirosław Majka wrote:
>  [ MODERATED ] ***********************
> Hi,
> the problem is that when I start OpenOffice it connects to some remote
> host which slows the process down. I've noticed it when my Internet
> provider had problems with its DNS server. The startup just went on
> forever. When I switched off the network connection it was back to
> normal. I have only figured out that OO wanted to connect to my DNS
> server but that's it.
>
> Can you tell me how to prevent OO from connecting SOMEWHER on startup?
>
> My installation is a Gentoo Linux compilation (version 2.1, kernel
> 2.6.18) with the following USE flags:
> branding cairo cups dbus firefox gnome gstreamer gtk  kde sound
> -binfilter -debug -eds -ldap -odk -pam -webdav -java
>

This behaviour sounds like a bug. However do you have a local DNS cache ?
Where is localhost resolved to ?
Have you checked with ethereal ( now AKA wireshark) to know what sites your 
OOo version is trying to connect to ?


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