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Allow Proteus to work when its website is down Apps
This morning my favoured IM client Proteus stopped working.... the website of its author also appears to be down. This is not a coincidence. It seems (according to tcpdump) that the software checks back with the website when its started and behaves erratically (unusably so) when it can't find the website.

A quick and easy fix for this is to start Apache (Web sharing) and add the following line to /etc/hosts:
  127.0.0.1 www.indigofield.com
Proteus will now be right as rain... just remove the line once the website comes back up.
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Proteus fixed in a17
Authored by: pete on Feb 11, '03 12:17:08PM

A quick fix in a17 stopped the DNS lookup, so just get the latest version.



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