[OT] Invalid host address

[J. Landman Gay]

I'm not sure about the other users but the latest one is on OS X. Could 
this affect Macs too?

On 3/2/2015 8:04 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> OH, thought just occurred to me, based on something that happened in
> another thread.  If they're on windows, and had a proxy set up at some
> point, then the proxy was disabled.. The information about the proxy still
> shows up greyed in the settings.  And it seems that LC decides the proxy is
> still active even though it isn't.  The browser would work, because it
> knows the proxy has been disabled.   The solution, is to clear the proxy
> information from the settings, even though the proxy settings are
> technically already disabled.
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The hosts file can be set up to provide specific name to ip address
>> mappings.  99.9% of the time its not used, and if it is, its often a
>> hijack. Along with the hijack thing, its also possible that a proxy has
>> been set up unbeknownst to the user, and its munging something as it
>> decides where they want to direct the user, rather than where the user
>> actually wants to go.
>>
>> Can you post some of the gibberish?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:53 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Out of thousands of users, occasionally one can't connect and repeatedly
>>> gets an invalid host address error. What causes those? All users are
>>> sending to the same server at the same domain. Naturally they all say it's
>>> only our app and never happens in a browser.
>>>
>>> Everything I've found about it is mostly gibberish to me. Is this
>>> something to do with the hosts file on the computer? The latest report says
>>> it happens on different networks (home and school) so I assume it's
>>> specific to his machine.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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