localhost

[George Toft]

Do you have a web server running on your local system?

Regards,

George Toft

On 10/9/2021 12:24 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> the browser shows the error as:
> The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a 
> few moments.
>     If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer’s network 
> connection.
>     If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, 
> make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
>
> I need to specify a port. Cool. That's all I needed to know.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 3:05 PM James Mcphee via PLUG-discuss 
> <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org 
> <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>     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.
>
>     On Sat, Oct 9, 2021 at 11:59 AM Snyder, Alexander J via
>     PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>     <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>
>         The IP address range *127.0.**0.0 – 127.255.**255.255* 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.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Alexander.
>
>         Sent from my Samsung S20+ 5G
>
>         On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 11:58 greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
>         <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>         <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>             localhost <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost>
>
>
>             	
>
>
>                 localhost
>
>             The local loopback mechanism may be used to run a network
>             service on a host without requiring a physical network...
>
>             <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost>
>
>
>             you need to specify the port number
>
>
>
>             On Saturday, October 9, 2021, 02:29:07 PM EDT, Michael via
>             PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>             <mailto:plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>> wrote:
>
>
>             Are the addresses for localhost 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.1.1 ?
>             That was a rhetorical question. What isn't rhetorical is
>             why, when I enter either of those addresses into a browser
>             , do I get a 'problem with address' page? Are there
>             -- 
>             :-)~MIKE~(-:
>             ---------------------------------------------------
>             PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>             PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>             <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>             To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>             https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>             <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>             ---------------------------------------------------
>             PLUG-discuss mailing list -
>             PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>             <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>             To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>             https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>             <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>
>         ---------------------------------------------------
>         PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>         <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>         To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>         https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>         <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     James McPhee
>     jmcphe at gmail.com <mailto:jmcphe at gmail.com>
>     ---------------------------------------------------
>     PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>     <mailto:PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>     To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>     https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>     <https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss>
>
>
>
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20211009/f80850f0/attachment.html>