> On 21 May 2016, at 08:43, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks sven. > > I'm working on image without personal setting and often in places with no > internet (or full of wifis but that I cannot connect to :). > > > Stef > >>> On 19 May 2016, at 13:41, stepharo <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi guys >>> >>> This is hyper annoying that Spotter look for the net by default. >>> >>> We should turn it off. >> This was 'fixed' in the sense that it now only gets it once every 24 hours >> and then caches it in the image. >> >> The real problem is that NetNameResolver (dns name -> IP address resolution, >> using of course opaque primitives) sometimes hangs. This makes it very hard >> for the image to decide if it has network connection or not. And thus hard >> to react in an intelligent way.
this means we need better support for networking, I think :) Esteban >> >> This situation is also hard to debug, because if I turn off my wireless >> network, NetNameResolver fails immediately (which is perfect). It is hard to >> reproduce the case where it hangs, at least for me. >> >> That is the issue that we should fix. >> >> Assuming someone has no internet, and force them to manage the connection >> state themselves manually, seems very backward to me - in this century. >> >> So I vote against turning it off. >> >>> We should also improve the comment of the catalog setting because it is >>> unclear >>> >>> that this is this setting that should be turned off. >> Yes that would be good. >> >>> Stef >>> >>> >> >> > >
