localhost Connection Refused.

[Rotariu Bogdan]

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
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Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro>
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