From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 21:11:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC04516A420 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:11:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: from luke.segpub.com.au (luke.segpub.com.au [64.49.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B16243D46 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:11:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: (qmail 76945 invoked by uid 89); 16 Mar 2006 08:11:45 +1100 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 76793, pid: 76929, t: 1.3233s scanners: clamav: 0.87/m:34/d:1169 spam: 3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on luke.segpub.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.35?) (eoghan@redry.net@194.125.78.88) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Mar 2006 08:11:44 +1100 Message-ID: <44188309.9010408@redry.net> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:11:37 +0000 From: eoghan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Stevenson References: <4418442D.3090807@redry.net> <44187E8D.3070104@allenmyland.com> <4418804D.5010803@redry.net> <441881C8.5050803@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <441881C8.5050803@allenmyland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hosts file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:11:46 -0000 Ken Stevenson wrote: > eoghan wrote: >> Ken Stevenson wrote: >>> eoghan wrote: >>>> Hi >>>> Has anyone got an example of how the hosts file should be setup to >>>> allow locahost to work in a browser? Mine doesnt work anymore unless >>>> i go through the ip. This is when i start apache, maybe there is >>>> some other place i need to set it? The httpd.conf has localhost in >>>> it... >>>> Thanks >>>> Eoghan >>> >>> Try deleting the ::1 >> >> I have tried this (it was originally commented out), I re-commented it >> out and still not working... >> Eoghan > > What do you get when you type: > > ping localhost Hi Same thing as when i ping 127.0.0.1: nathaniel#ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address Eoghan