Allow Proteus to work when its website is down

Feb 11, '03 09:08:33AM

Contributed by: NaD

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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