OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 03 December 2004 22:45, Eric Wood wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Klinke"
>
>> On Friday 03 December 2004 18:32, JL wrote:
>>> I tried running strace oowriter......here's the end of the output
>>> where it is hanging up.
>>>
>>> time(NULL)                              = 1102119632
>>> socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 27
>>> fcntl64(27, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
>>> setsockopt(27, SOL_SOCKET, SO_REUSEADDR, [1], 4) = 0
>>> setsockopt(27, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
>>> connect(27, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(631),
>>> sin_addr=inet_addr("64.15.205.241")}, 16) = -1 ECONNREFUSED
>>> (Connection refused)
>>> close(27)                               = 0
>>>
>>> which then repeats with ther addresses 64.15.205.155,
>>> 64.15.205.180, 64.15.205.202, and several others. The  delay in
>>> starting is caused by the timeout on all the connections. Can
>>> anybody explain what on earth is happening?
>>
>> That block of addresses belongs to an outfit that seems to be
>> associated with "all things spammy" if you look them up via
>> Google.
>
>Do a "strings" command on all the OOo binaries and grep for ip
> patterns.  I can't imagine why any ip address would be hard coded
> into the program.  Some FQDN's sure, but not an ip address.
>Weird!
>
If its there, tell the OO folks ASAP.  I haven't let a 64.xx.xx.xx 
address past iptables in 5 years.

>-eric wood

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