Re: [SOLVED] Re: privoxy refusing connections?

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On 2015-06-06, Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2015 06:17 AM, Liam O'Toole wrote:
>> On 2015-06-06, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote:

- SNIP -

>>> 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

Nothing unusual, I'd say. It's just that "localhost" is resolved by IPv6,
whereas 127.0.0.1 is specific to IPV4.

-- 

Liam