Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: HTTP transport error: java.net.UnknownHostException: Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:02:12 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="6b9e92482af47766954d85fb77d372f5"; logging-data="14542"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/gej1KMTH+4qODhB2aaCKLL6v1B+i7it4=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20131103 Icedove/17.0.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:TaPDRu4X7e7JABUIpGl9zyDn38Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:27848 On 03/25/2014 07:12 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > Even since I switched over to Java 1.8.0 I have been getting a lot of > HTTP transport error: java.net.UnknownHostException: > The odd thing is I can probe the site fine for other pages, then > after this error it is able to probe again without error. > > It literally sounds like the site disappears for a short time. > Any hints on the problem? > Be prepared with a more specific description. ?-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true?