On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 21:08 -0500, Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > The problem had been that when I attempted to browse pages on my own > website, on the same computer that I run the server on, most pages > would never finish loading. Before you added to your local loopback addresses, when you browsed your site were you browsing it via its IP address or a domain name? And if you were using a domain name, what IP was associated with it at *that* time? If you browse your server using an internal LAN address, whether that be 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.1.2, etc., the networking is handled internally by your computer. Barring some unusual firewall rules, that should work fine. If you try browsing your server using an external address, your connections (logically) would go out of your network and back in again. That doesn't always work. Some systems will not allow internal LAN addresses to connect to external public ones. That's the sort of thing that some hackers will try (fake an internal address to get through your firewall). My firewall blocks those sorts of things, and my external address applies to my router rather than my PC. If I try to connect to my external address, from inside my LAN, I end up connecting to the webserver inside my router, that's used to configure it. It doesn't allow you to connect to the WAN side of things. To confuse things even further, some systems will realise that the public address is applied to itself, and avoid actually going through the network, and just route things internally. Whether you use a local DNS server, or your hosts file, the simplest way for internally testing a webserver is to have entries that tell your LAN your webserver domain name refers to an internal LAN address. However, this can confuse the Dickens out of scripts that update dynamic addresses with outside servers. I avoided that by running my server on a PC that I don't actually use directly, so it doesn't have confusing entries for its own domain name. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
