Yesterday I had the bad luck my internet connection was not working. While starting up App Engine dev server ik took more than 1 minut to startup and it gave me the following exception:
May 26, 2010 8:26:01 PM com.google.appengine.tools.info.RemoteVersionFactory getVersion INFO: Unable to access https://appengine.google.com/api/updatecheck?runtime=java&release=1.3.4×tamp=1273872371&api_versions=['1.0'] java.net.UnknownHostException: appengine.google.com at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177) at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:432) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:529) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.connect(SSLSocketImpl.java: 550) at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.BaseSSLSocketImpl.connect(BaseSSLSocketImpl.java: 141) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:163) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:394) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:529) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.<init>(HttpsClient.java: 272) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.New(HttpsClient.java:329) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java: 172) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConnection.java: 801) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java: 158) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java: 1049) at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java: 234) at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1010) at com.google.appengine.tools.info.RemoteVersionFactory.getVersion(RemoteVersionFactory.java: 76) at com.google.appengine.tools.info.UpdateCheck.checkForUpdates(UpdateCheck.java: 98) at com.google.appengine.tools.info.UpdateCheck.doNagScreen(UpdateCheck.java: 168) at com.google.appengine.tools.info.UpdateCheck.maybePrintNagScreen(UpdateCheck.java: 136) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain $StartAction.apply(DevAppServerMain.java:158) at com.google.appengine.tools.util.Parser $ParseResult.applyArgs(Parser.java:48) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.<init>(DevAppServerMain.java: 120) at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain.main(DevAppServerMain.java: 96) App was running after that like normal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.