Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

[Pann McCuaig <pann@ourmanpann.com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 08:46, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: Andre Berger writes:
> 
> >> > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a
> >> > >>problem to load http://localhost.
> >> > >>
> >> > >>However, links and w3m fails.  Links' error message is: "Host not found"
> >> > >>and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";.
> 
> Exactly the same as here.
> 
> See a thread some time ago on telnet not finding localhost... We founf
> no solution to the problem at that time.
> 
> Try:
> 
> telnet localhost 80
> 
> This is what I get here:
> 
> telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution

Sounds like it may be a name resolution problem. Here's my experience:
pann@potato:~$ telnet localhost 80
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
pann@potato:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.5     potato.ourmanpann.com   potato
192.168.1.1     firewall.ourmanpann.com firewall
192.168.1.2     rescue.ourmanpann.com   rescue
192.168.1.3     win95.ourmanpann.com    win95
192.168.1.4     openbsd.ourmanpann.com  openbsd

And I'm not running bind on this box, FWIW.

Luck,
Pann
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