[geeks] Apple applications phoning home

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: John Francini <francini at mac.com>
" 
" 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.

alternatively, you could try the old '127.0.0.1 configuration.apple.com'
in the hosts file trick, if the apps don't have the ip hardcoded in.
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