[OT] Invalid host address

[Peter W A Wood]

Jacque

I don’t know if this will help but I believe host can get converted to ::1 under ipv6. I know that I used to have an issue on my OS X a few versions ago and had to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in URLs.  

Regards

Peter

> On 3 Mar 2015, at 10:21, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
>>>> 
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>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>>> 
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