<div dir="ltr">thanks guys. I don't apach or something like that running on my system. I am learning so much!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 7:17 PM Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Are you running a local web server on port tcp/80/443, otherwise why connection to localhost? You need a server like apache, nginx, or whatever web server listening on 80/443 for a browser to find a webpage on localhost, which is your system. Otherwise the browser won't find a socket to connect to let alone a web page, which is what it's telling you.<br></div><div><br></div><div>## this will show you anything listening locally on http|https ports and what app did it<br></div><div>sudo ss -tpl | grep http</div><div><br></div><div>## try to connect if you think you should see an open socket from above, below fails<br></div><div>[~]# telnet 127.0.0.1 80<br>Trying 127.0.0.1...<br>telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused</div><div><br></div><div>No active firewall right?<br></div><div><br></div><div>If you wanted to you can limit host access to bind external sockets like 80/443, or whatever to only <a href="http://127.0.0.0/8" target="_blank">127.0.0.0/8</a> meaning only local processes can access sockets, not even someone on your local lan. This is a security practice in application cases for high-speed caching or inter-process communications local to this system only.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-mb<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 12:24 PM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>the browser shows the error as: <br></div><div>The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few moments.</div> If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network connection.<br> If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.<br><div><br></div><div>I need to specify a port. Cool. That's all I needed to know.<br></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:05 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Regarding the original question of why the browser is saying "problem with address", what is the actual error? Name resolution, connection, cert, etc etc? Those friendly human readable errors leave too much open to interpretation.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 11:59 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><br><span style="color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)">The IP address range </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)">127.0.</b><span style="color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)"> </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)">0.0 – 127.255.</b><span style="color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)"> </span><b style="max-height:999999px;color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)">255.255</b><span style="color:rgb(189,193,198);font-family:roboto,"helvetica neue",arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(48,49,52)"> is reserved for loopback, i.e. a Host's self-address, also known as localhost address. This loopback IP address is managed entirely by and within the operating system.</span><div dir="auto"><font face="roboto, helvetica neue, arial, sans-serif" color="#bdc1c6"><br></font><div dir="auto">Thanks,<br>Alexander.<br><br>Sent from my Samsung S20+ 5G</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 11:58 greg zegan via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div></div>
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