Re: Connection issues / timeouts
Ok, I figured it out:
- when a solution is processed, the country you are in is determined from your IP address
- this is a database lookup, but if the address is not in the database, an online service (ip2location.com) is used to get the info (and store it)
- this is the case for your IP address
- the connection to ip2location.com times out
(it seems odd it's always timing out for this particular query (?))(or maybe for the time of day)
I added a check to see if the service is up before the query is done, this should speed things up.
The problem may still happen (let me know) if the ip2location server reports that it's up, but for some reason the IP lookup service times out.
If that happens, I'll add the IP entry manually, after that there'll be no more timeouts
Patrick