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I have a soap webservice (not made by me) that uses in the .svc file that describes that webservice urls like:

<President xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/ Zuga.net">

Does pinging schemas.datacontract.org resulting in timeout explains the fact that calling the webservice results in a timeout? Or is it normal if I can't ping schemas.datacontract.org?

Bogdan
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is it normal if I can't ping schemas.datacontract.org?

Yes. If you ping it and it results in a timeout, that has nothing to do with how your web service runs.

Those are just XML Namespace identifiers. They need to be valid URIs, or in this case URLs, but it's not mandatory for them to point anywhere.

So if http://schemas.datacontract.org/... doesn't go anywhere, or doesn't open a page, or doesn't respond to pings, then that's just fine. They are just identifiers.

See these resources for more details:

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