Misleading error message when DNS lookup fails

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AMSAT Fox-1 Telemetry Decoder

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Misleading error message when DNS lookup fails #561

Closed ac2cz closed 5 years ago

ac2cz commented 5 years ago

Zach reported: 1) If DNS fails (i.e. can't resolve www.amsat.org), File -> Fetch Server Data will fail with "Error reading/writing ...". You can duplicate this by removing the content of /etc/resolv.conf on a test machine.

What confused me is that it said it had a problem writing a local file. It was only until I enabled logging and saw that it could not fetch nasabare.txt that I knew it was a network issue.

ac2cz commented 5 years ago

This message is also misleading when the server URL is wrong:

ac2cz commented 5 years ago

In 1.08j