[thelist] Win2K: Changing "localhost"

Frank lists at frankmarion.com
Sat Jan 11 13:19:01 CST 2003


At 10:06 AM 1/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>'127.0.0.1  localhost' *is* the "loopback" address; your public IP
>has nothing to do with this.

Yes, this is so.

>Can you ping localhost? ping 127.0.0.1? If so, your 'loopback' is
>definitely working.

I can. It seems then, that I misstated my problem. The problem, then is not
that I can't access localhost, but rather that IE can't access it. I bet
it's got something to do with my proxy server, then. Thanks. That gives me
another direction to look at.

>Once again, I'd recommend you install Ethereal and sniff the traffic
>to see what's really going on...

Thanks, I'll look at it.





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