If the proxy is not authenticated, I think you can just put the IP address in as the machine name and it should work. But that's all I can think of.
Karl On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Markus Schuch <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi @ the lovely mcf community out there, > > in our setup we run manifoldcf (2.3) behind a corporate http proxy server > and we try to crawl specific web pages in the internet. > > We run into java.net.UnknownHostException because the connector tries to > resolve the ip of the hostname. This fails, because our network setup does > not allow direct dns lookups for internet pages and the JDKs > InetAddress.getByName() call relies on the systems dns lookup mechanisms. > All internet traffic goes through the corporate http proxy server which > does all necessary dns resolution on his side. > > Can you think of any other (more elegant) solution besides adding the > records to /etc/hosts on the crawlers machine? > > Many thanks in advance, > Markus > > >
