[geeks] Apple applications phoning home

[John Francini]

Uh, no -- it's a half-a-bug.

If you turn off the Mac's network access via either unplugging the  
Ethernet and/or turning off AirPort, it *will* work.  I think the  
problem is that Address Book is not expecting to get a *block* on  
Port 80, i.e., rejected.  If you can set your firewall to simply eat  
the request without doing anything (thus making it appear as if it's  
down), I bet it will work.

john


On 19 Oct 2007, at 8:56, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> I think the question is not "is it malicious", but "why?" Step  
>> back and think about this - he can't change preferences in his  
>> local address book without internet access. That is a problem, IMHO.
>>
>> I can understand if there is a .mac sync client that *wants* to  
>> access apple.com sites in it's normal operation, but it should  
>> handle the lack of internet connectivity better (i.e. cache  
>> changes until connectivity is restored)...
>
> Yeah.  This gets files under "failure to degrade gracefully."
>
>
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