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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@laperouse.internatif.org>
To: Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:58:26AM -0500,
 Marty Landman <MLandman@face2interface.com> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> Like the subject says, I can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 but can't get to 
> them via lynx.

Error message from lynx?

Or a broken proxy setup:

echo $http_proxy 
 
> /etc/hosts says
> 
> ::1                     localhost localhost.face2interface.domain
> 127.0.0.1               localhost localhost.face2interface.domain

Do you try http://127.0.0.1/ or http://localhost/ ? In the second
case, you may have an IPv6 problem.