localhost ports

[Geoff Shang]

Hi,

Answering an earlier message, if host.allow/host.deny was responsible, I 
think he'd be seeing a connect message and then a "connection closed" 
message, rather than "connection refused" if this were the reason.

Here's a thought out of left field.  When you try to connect, are you using 
127.0.0.1 or localhost?   Maybe try 127.0.0.1 if you haven't already in 
case your DNS is doing weird things to you.

Geoff.