> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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