On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 02:26:42PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Every time it was ran and asked for file:// or http:// localhost:80 you wind > up looking at google seatch failure screen saying there is no such thing as > localhost.
$ host localhost $ grep localhost /etc/hosts $ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf Chrome doesn't treat "localhost" specially. It just looks it up like any other hostname. If your local definition of "localhost" is screwed up, then you will get screwed-up results. I'm pretty certain this was what we concluded last time you brought this up -- that your /etc/hosts file had an incorrect or missing entry for localhost. Here's what it should look like: unicorn:~$ host localhost localhost has address 127.0.0.1 unicorn:~$ grep localhost /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback unicorn:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
