Re: localhost Connection Refused.

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Please send the output of 'ifconfig -a' - the loopback connection may
not actually be up, although it ought to be...

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Vince Thompson wrote:

> I have two computers that I loaded Fedora on. I am trying to get the web
> browser to show the localhost but keep getting the Connection Refused
> message on both machines.
>
> If I use http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 I get the connection refused.
> If I use Telnet to connect I get the connection refused message too.
> If I try rlogin I get the connection refused message.
> I was trying to get Samba and Swat working so http://localhost:901 was one
> of the first addresses I tried and got the connection refused message.
>
> I am able to connect to the machines with ssh and from a Windows machine
> using PuTTY.
>
> The desktop machine has the following in its hosts file:
>
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will vail.
> 127.0.0.1        hpvli8ux            localhost.localdomain         localhost
> 192.168.1.12   vetts
>
> I have the firewall turned off.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and found a solution?
>
> I've tried google searches but haven't found a solution yet. Also, is there
> a way to search the archives for this maillist?
>
>
>
>

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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University



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