On 28 Jan 2002, Harold Bibik wrote: > > last week I did a fresh install of Woody > on a single machine, single user desktop that has a dialup > connect to the net. > > I have not been able to connect to localhost for some reason > > I've tried apache and dhttpd and trying to http://localhost > to either port 80 or 631 gives me a connection refused error > > if I try to telnet in I get: > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host > [snip]
I've noticed the same thing. However, I can ping localhost. On another machine, with an identical setup as far as I can see, I can't ping localhost but I can telnet to it. Very odd. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux GNU/Debian (Windows-free zone) For an electronic book (The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 150 book reviews, go to: http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. [Carl Sagan]
