when i ran toucan for the first time my firewall alerts me that toucan was acting as a dns server
i don't know the reason for the software access the internet so i blocked it
could anyone clarify me?
thanks!
New: Run-Command (Dec 2, 2024), Platform 29.5.3 (Jun 27, 2024)
1,100+ portable packages, 1.1 billion downloads
No Ads Nov/Dec!, Please donate today
Visit the Community page
Join our forums
Subscribe to our email newsletter
Subscribe with RSS
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on LinkedIn
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Mastodon
Follow us on BlueSky
certainly shouldn't do that, could I ask what firewall you were using?
___
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
My Blog
i use symantec client security 3.1
here's the alert log entry
The user has created a rule to "block" communications.
Outbound UDP packet.
Local address,service is (201.62.170.97,0).
Remote address,service is (200.150.4.215,domain(53)).
Process name is "H:\PortableApps\Toucan\Toucan.exe".
Do you have an option to check for updates?
---------------
"Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms, the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river." -- Cyril Connolly
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: baby ain't mine." -- Adam Holguin
there's no option for software check updates. unless it does without any setup, but i consider that odd
was some stuff for updating but that all got stripped out, there is really no way the it should be accessing the internet.
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Toucan doesn't try to access internet on my computer. False alarm for you maybe?
well...probably a false alert then
thanks to all replies
I concur. Toucan DOES phone home. I'll check back later for a 'safer' version...
I have added that would make it phone home. Could you tell me where it is phoning too?
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
I had some launchers "phoning home" but I know the sourcecode and I KNOW they dont do that.It was some weired ip 224.0.0.224 or something like that.
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Toucan tries to connect to the DNS Server when I attempt to Encrypt a file. I select the file I want to encrypt, then press "Go", then I immediately get a notification from ZoneAlarm telling me that Toucan is trying to access the the DNS server. I didn't let it connect, so I don't know who it's trying to talk to. I didn't feel like letting my password get sent to who-knows-who.
Obviously, any program that tries connecting to ANYONE without my permission is a problem, but a program that involves 'Securing' my information? Tisk, tisk...
It shouldn't connect to anything. There is nothing in the code to make it phone home.
_________________________
I don't believe in signatures
The developer formerly known as ZGitRDun8705
seriously, it doesn't phone home. Considering that I seem to have only a couple of complaints and over 25,000 downloads I'm pretty sure that this is a false positive. Just as a thought though have you tried downloading another copy?
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Are you sure BURP doesn't?
----
Ryan McCue.
Blog.
So all that Airbus-delay trouble over here in Europe is because of YOU!
Simeon.
"If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate."
sure as I can be (I have read through the source code and looked for any external calls, although my C isn't great).
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
+1, I saw it the first time I ran it. I am not sure, but I think it was trying to access the DNS server. I said "no" and didn't have any problems. Could be a call to some MS function that most people have enabled.
Suggest setting all programs to ask in your firewall and rerunning Toucan.
Clair
was my current line of thought, perhaps it queries the DNS when it finds out the computers name, I'll look into it some more, as Clair suggests though, just set it to deny.
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
get to the bottom of this, please see here.
___
Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK