[NBLUG/talk] localhost: connection refused

[Todd Cary]

ifconfig gives

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:4B:74:F3:99
          inet addr:192.168.0.12  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::210:4bff:fe74:f399/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:417 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:48604 (47.4 KiB)  TX bytes:39706 (38.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1977 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1977 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2332669 (2.2 MiB)  TX bytes:2332669 (2.2 MiB)

Todd

S. Saunders wrote:

>On Fri, July 8, 2005 23:15, Todd Cary said:
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>>Just installed FC3 and the network is up as well as smb. I am
>>overlooking something simple since "localhost" connection is refused
>>e.g. http://localhost in the browser.
>>
>>The fist line of the hosts file reads
>>
>>127.0.0.1      localhost.localdomain       localhost
>>
>>Any suggestions as what I should be checking?
>>    
>>
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>Can you hit the IP address?
>Is there a webserver process up/running?
>Is there a port listening?
>
>"Connection refused" usually means that inetd/httpd/whatever
>doesn't have a port listening for connections...
>
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>- Steve S.
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