Q: I have installed Vase, but I can not connect to any server and it goes into offline mode.
A: One possibility is that you have a firewall in place that is preventing you from contacting certain port numbers. Can you verify whether you can connect to dmc.iris.washington.edu:6371 ?
Telnet is one way you can see whether a connection can be made: % telnet dmc.iris.washington.edu 6371 Trying 128.95.166.129... Connected to dmc.iris.washington.edu. Escape character is '^]'.
Hit the RETURN key a few times and you should see the following message:
GIOPConnection closed by foreign host.
If there is something blocking the connection, you'll get a Connection Refused or Connect Failed message.