Re: localhost connection refused
On 28 Jan 2002, Harold Bibik wrote:
>
> last week I did a fresh install of Woody
> on a single machine, single user desktop that has a dialup
> connect to the net.
>
> I have not been able to connect to localhost for some reason
>
> I've tried apache and dhttpd and trying to http://localhost
> to either port 80 or 631 gives me a connection refused error
>
> if I try to telnet in I get:
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
>
[snip]
I've noticed the same thing. However, I can ping localhost. On another
machine, with an identical setup as far as I can see, I can't ping
localhost but I can telnet to it. Very odd.
Anthony
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