Re: MathKernel access Internet?
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- Subject: [mg39627] Re: [mg39565] MathKernel access Internet?
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murraye at attbi.com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 02:43:48 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I did a Lookup on the IP address, and it's my ISP's (attbi.com -- now merged with Comcast). Mathematica still seems to work normally even if I just deny the permission manually when ZoneAlarm pops up with the query whether to allow the access. Naturally, I wondered whether some rogue program had somehow worked its way into Mathematica! John Fultz wrote: > No, it shouldn't. There is some code in Mathematica that accesses the > network for support of the license manager; it is possible that some of > this code is being unnecessarily executed (most likely code which simply > verifies the machine's IP address and/or hostname, or perhaps the code > which initializes the Windows network libraries) and thus making spurious > calls to the network. > > I don't know what the IP address is you've listed, but I wouldn't be > surprised if it's your own machine, your gateway, or your DNS server. I'm > curious whether you can simply suppress the communication via ZoneAlarm > and still have Mathematica work. > > We'll add some tests to run a single-user license Mathematica with > ZoneAlarm on its strictest settings for future versions of Mathematica, > but I'm afraid there's not much that can be done for you right now. > > Sincerely, > > John Fultz > jfultz at wolfram.com > User Interface Group > Wolfram Research, Inc. > > > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 05:01:02 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >>Should MathKernel in Mathematica 4.2.1 be attempting to access the >>Internet? Whenever I start the kernel, my software firewall ZoneAlarm >>Pro reports that MathKernel.exe is trying to access IP 63.240.76.19:DNS. >> >>This is a single-user installation (not one running against license >>manager on a network) running under Windows XP. > > > > > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street Amherst, MA 01375