On 2017년 07월 21일 16:41, me.grimm wrote:
Is the firewall on ...?
firewall is off
ping localhost
ping: cannot resolve localhost: Unknown host
with -nogui in Terminal ala
n$ /Volumes/U/Pd-0.48-0test3.app/Contents/Resources/bin/pd -nogui -verbose input channels = 2, output channels = 2 Pd-0.48.0 ("test3") compiled 22:16:32 Jul 19 2017 error: Ignoring invalid font-metrics from GUI! Pt_Start() called
is that the classic messed up /private/etc/hosts file?
yeah this is what I found there: https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts
Desperately installing the Adobe crack on OS X and in the process of
hindering it of calling home deleting the localhost line? not sure what this means... so delete this file?
so, the /private/etc/hosts file "Hosts file which is used for improving IPv6 access speed to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. in Mainland China."
... and yes the student is from china so that explains this at least.
so what do I do now? :)
this gets us into privacy laws, china gov laws?, no idea, etc. which turns this to a much deeper discussion since I assume we are here to support as many students as possible but without fully understanding what a systems level change could potentially do once students return to native country I really have no experience or clue here....
max, you have some experience here no?
well anyway, might there be a work around for now? or could pd issue a warning like "is your firewall on?" OR "sup with your /private/etc/hosts file?
according to the web, this is the default hosts file on OS X:
-------begin------ ## ## # Host Database # # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. ## 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost fe80::1%lo0 localhost ------end-------
there is even a warning in there that those users seem to ignore. I'm pretty sure those four lines need to be in there, you can add all the stuff from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts/master/hosts if you want to "optimize" things for use in China, but keep those 4 lines!!