On 8/22/01, Tyson Vanek penned:
>The server that the CFHTTP call is running from might not have DNS
>available. If you're CFHTTP call is pointing to a domain name (i.e.
>www.amazon.com) rather than an IP address (i.e. 198.24.182.3 - made that
>up), the server issuing the CFHTTP call has to be correctly configured to
>use DNS in order to resolve the www.amazon.com into the IP address. Without
>it, ColdFusion will never make a connection to the page and, if you haven't
>set a timeout on the CFHTTP call, will permanently jam one of your "running
>request" slots in CF.
Actually, it is pointing to an IP Address. And the connection failure
comes up instantly.
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