[OT] Invalid host address

[Mike Bonner]

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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