1) vino doesn't use the external website to check for connectivity. Even when the remote website isn't accessible, vino is still supposed to start up fine. It only uses the remote website to determine if the computer is accessible from the internet so it will display an appropriate message to the user. Even if the user is behind a NAT connection, vino has an option to use uPnP to reconfigure the user's firewall to forward the appropriate port.
2) It doesn't. Please give exact steps how to reproduce this issue, as it works fine for me when I block outgoing connections. 3) This is no different than ntp connecting to a remote website to sync the time when the machine is booted, or firefox connecting to a remote website when it is opened to check if new plugins are available. I don't consider this a security issue. ** Visibility changed to: Public -- vino establishes a HTTP connection to check connectivity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/608701 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
