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Douglas Ruisaard
Trilogy Software
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> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:37:23 +
> From: Bob Sneidar
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: source of a socket error message
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> Not
It might be we are overcomplicating things. Maybe this just needs a support
note to check the Internet connection.
I am having a little trouble picturing the situation here. And like you, I
wonder about the description. Since one city was mentioned, I thought there was
a possibility of a
On 7/18/19 8:11 AM, dsc--- via use-livecode wrote:
Also...
If you have control of these sites and even if you use an ISP DNS service, you
can add a secondary DNS IP address, perhaps a public recursive name server such
as the Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). This will add a robustness without
Not to put too fine a point on it but that gives me the heebie jeebies. There
are ~5000 instances of the app. The dev can't control what the ISP of the
server does, or if the hosting company goes out of business or gets bought out.
Although rare, an ISP CAN alter the public IP subnet. It
Also...
If you have control of these sites and even if you use an ISP DNS service, you
can add a secondary DNS IP address, perhaps a public recursive name server such
as the Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). This will add a robustness without
upgrading the software.
If you don't manage those, you
That answer is probably bang on
...and a solution to top it off.
* slow clap *
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 9:51 PM Dar Scott via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> This is very likely a loss of network availability and of that a loss of
> Internet availability.
>
> The library
This is very likely a loss of network availability and of that a loss of
Internet availability.
The library will first look up the URI to get an IP address. The IP address is
used to make a connection to the server. The computer has (or can get) an IP
address to use for making that look up.
Let me start this off by stating that the information I am seeking IS NOT due
to an *issue* with LC. Hopefully, I can make it clear why I am asking for
assistance from this group in regard to the situation I am trying to deal with
and why I need the LC expertise of this group as a resource.
