Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: dajudge@inficad.com (Michael Klucher) Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Chat Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 23:47:59 GMT Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 41 Message-ID: <34d0c366.1032835@news.scea.sony.com> References: <34c6b419.40663706@205.149.189.29> <6a6r1h$8n11@scea> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip3.ts5.phx.inficad.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 This is exactly what happenes with mine it tries to contact this thing but never gets ahold of it I wonder if the server is only on during the day or somthing weird so if we can get this to work are we going to try chatting again?? On Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:52:19 -0800, "Michael Hough" wrote: >Mario Perdue wrote in message <34c6b419.40663706@205.149.189.29>... >>I just had a problem that sounds like the one several of you have >>reported. I went to the auditorium, and nothing happened. I cleared my >>memory cache and disk cache in Netscape and went back to the >>auditorium. Everything worked fine after the 500+ download completed. >> >>Mario > >Cool! Unfortunately, that hasn't been my experience; I just got Netscape 3, >thinking perhaps my IE4 was somehow barfing--but no amount of reloading and >cache clearing sems to work. It loads the familiar box with buttons, but in >the middle is a white rectangle; I don't get any names or prompts or >anything. On the status bar, though, it says "Connect: Contacting host: >www.scea.sony.com: 8057..." and then after a while it stops. My Java >Console, however, is saying the following: > >---- >PlaceWare client 1.1b3 connecting to www.scea.sony.com:8057 >Direct connection failed (java.net.SocketException: No error), falling back >to HTTP >Error opening http response: java.io.IOException: There was no response. The >server could be down >or is not responding. > >If you are unable to connect again later, contact >the server's administrator. >---- > >Could it be that the server is somehow failing or misconfigured? > >mike >