[OT] Invalid host address

[J. Landman Gay]

Thanks Peter, but I'm afraid you're speaking Greek to me. Would 
localhost matter if the app is trying to connect to a remote server?

Does LC need to know about ipv6 or is that handled at the OS level? 
Sorry to be so uninformed, I'm out of my depth here.

On 3/2/2015 8:42 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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