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Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

On 06/06/2015 06:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:



On Saturday 06 June 2015 08:41 AM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:



On Friday 05 June 2015 10:00 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:


On Friday 05 June 2015 08:37 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote:

On 2015-06-05, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Came across privoxy and wanted to test it out so I installed it

sudo apt-get install privoxy

And configured my browser to use the proxy at
127.0.0.1 port 8118

I keep getting the error: "The proxy server is refusing connections"

I checked the privoxy config file and the log file. Log file's
empty and
the config file has a line:
listen-address  localhost:8118

Would anyone have pointers on how to solve this?

Regards,
Kailash



Are you sure that privoxy is running?


Here's the output from ps.
$ps -ax | grep privoxy
    1601 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/privoxy --pidfile
/var/run/privoxy.pid --user privoxy /etc/privoxy/config

So, looks like it is and it's using the correct config file.

Thanks,
Kailash



Yes, it does. Does "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 correctly? I would
be surprised if it did not, but it's worth checking.


$ ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.059 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.050 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms

I wonder if it's something in the config file, but I couldn't figure
it out.



Turns out that Liam was correct about the localhost issue. privoxy was
listening on the ipv6 localhost and not the ipv4.

A search on privoxy.org's mailing list resolved this:
http://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/mailman/message/30642470/

$sudo netstat -tunlp

tcp6       0      0 ::1:8118                :::* LISTEN      1601/privoxy

Went into /etc/privoxy/config and changed
listen-address localhost:8118
to
listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118

And now the issue's resolved.

Kailash


That's good news. It should also work if you approach it from the other
direction, i.e., tell the browser to connect to localhost instead of
127.0.0.1.


I wonder what he has in /etc/hosts?? Ric


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