Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:45:48 -0600 From: James Earl <jamesearl@shaw.ca> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Network activity from running applications Message-ID: <20020711214548.472abcbf.jamesearl@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <1026442139.369.1.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <20020711145407.64aa90b5.jamesearl@shaw.ca> <1026442139.369.1.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:48:58 -0400 Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-07-11 at 16:54, James Earl wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm just curious... how come when I run some GNOME 2.0 applications, such as the GNOME Calculator, my modem shows network activity? > > Are you experimenting with any pycho-tropic drugs :-)? > > There shouldn't be any network activity unless the application is > causing CORBA broadcasts to go out. Alternatively, this may be DNS > traffic. Pop up ethereal or tcpdump, and see what the traffic is. > > Joe Ahhh... thanks! Looks pretty harmless. I've added another loopback entry in my hosts file, and the traffic is gone of course. Now I feel a little silly... oh well. I must have been tired, and started thinking of Microsoft and that maybe GNOME decided they'd like to see how many times people launch the GNOME calculator! : ) James > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > > > -- > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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