if he gets connection refused to 127.0.0.1 it surely is UP or he has route for 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 :) On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 22:41, Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote: > 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? > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sam Barnett-Cormack > Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths > UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University -- Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan@xxxxxxxxxx> Alterox Sistem
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