Captcha Boxes

We are troubleshooting a captcha error problem.

Has anyone seen the error below before? Any input would be greatly appreciate.

The captcha error we get is:

#0 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Http/Client.php(1059): Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Socket->connect('www.google.com', 80, false)
#1 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Service/ReCaptcha.php(482): Zend_Http_Client->request('POST')
#2 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Service/ReCaptcha.php(497): Zend_Service_ReCaptcha->_post('03AHJ_VutkvpKMz...', '6546')
#3 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Captcha/ReCaptcha.php(239): Zend_Service_ReCaptcha->verify('03AHJ_VutkvpKMz...', '6546')
#4 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Form/Element.php(1414): Zend_Captcha_ReCaptcha->isValid('6546', Array)
#5 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Form/Element/Captcha.php(282): Zend_Form_Element->isValid('6546', Array)
#6 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Form.php(2269): Zend_Form_Element_Captcha->isValid('6546', Array)
#7 /var/www/plugins/Commenting/controllers/CommentController.php(53): Zend_Form->isValid(Array)
#8 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Action.php(516): Commenting_CommentController->addAction()
#9 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Dispatcher/Standard.php(308): Zend_Controller_Action->dispatch('addAction')
#10 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Controller/Front.php(954): Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Standard->dispatch(Object(Zend_Controller_Request_Http), Object(Zend_Controller_Response_Http))
#11 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Application/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.php(97): Zend_Controller_Front->dispatch()
#12 /var/www/application/libraries/Zend/Application.php(366): Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap->run()
#13 /var/www/application/libraries/Omeka/Application.php(79): Zend_Application->run()
#14 /var/www/index.php(23): Omeka_Application->run()
#15 {main}

At the top of that message, before the list you posted, there should be some additional message with the original error. Could you post that, too?

See below. We are running Omeka 2.0.
-Thanks

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Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Exception

Unable to Connect to tcp://www.google.com:80. Error #0: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known

Somehow PHP can't look up the address for google. I've seen this occasionally in my development environment, but was never able to nail down the fundamental cause. However, restarting the server generally rectified it for me.

We restarted and still get the error. Is there a way to temporarily disable recaptcha?

At least in Commenting, if you just delete the keys in Omeka's security settings, that should ignore recaptcha

Excellent. Thanks muchly. This is nice stopgap.

It turns out there is a network configuration issue with the server so it cannot find Google. Our IT department is looking into it.

Thanks again.

Ahh....that makes sense. Good luck.