Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to OpenACS polling webcrawler and confusing my local system.

    Lee> 	What I notice is screwy behavior when I start Netscape
    Lee> (locally).  Netscape never comes back from some startup
    Lee> process. I don't know how to find what is hung
I've seen this problem when not connected to the internet. I assume that netscape is doing name lookup so that it can talk to netscape.com. I found that if I used netscape-navigator instead of netscape-communicator the problem went away. I think that netscape-communicator is linked to netscape by default on redhat systems.
    Lee> 	I have received error message emails where OpenACS is
    Lee> trying to access
    Lee> http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/active/all.txt
To get around this problem why working unconnected to the internet, I just setup a seperate instance of aolserver to act as the the info.webcrawler site. The url for this is configureable in the ad.tcl file, so I just set it to http://localhost:8001/all.txt.