cant connect to Localhost

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Old Grizzly

Hi
3 machines networked from linksys router, all 3 have Zone Alarm and XP
Pro. 2 machines will not connect to localhost/127.0.0.1.
I have turned off ZA on one of those machines that still wont connect
but still the same so it cant be ZA but what else could it be? They all
share the router and one connects so its not the router but what ?
.....my brain hurts LOL
BTW its a Linksys WRT54G router

Regards Len
 
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Thanks and tried it but it still doesnt work.

Regards Len
 
Old Grizzly said:
Thanks and tried it but it still doesnt work.

Regards Len
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What are you expecting to see on 127.0.0.1? I just get a blank page. Do
you mean that you want to connect to the router?
 
Maincat said:
What are you expecting to see on 127.0.0.1? I just get a blank page. Do
you mean that you want to connect to the router?
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If so, try 198.168.1.1 or whatever your default gateway is.
 
Hi
May be you want to explain the functional thing that you are trying to do.
Each computer probably has the Localhost resolution in its Host file, and it
resolved to it self not across the Network.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
 
"Old said:
Hi
3 machines networked from linksys router, all 3 have Zone Alarm and XP
Pro. 2 machines will not connect to localhost/127.0.0.1.
I have turned off ZA on one of those machines that still wont connect
but still the same so it cant be ZA but what else could it be? They all
share the router and one connects so its not the router but what ?
....my brain hurts LOL
BTW its a Linksys WRT54G router

Regards Len
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The only way to know for sure whether ZA is causing the problem is to
un-install ZA. Just turning ZA off isn't enough.

What does "connect to localhost/127.0.0.1" mean? What exactly are you
trying to do?
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Jack (MVP-Networking). said:
Hi
May be you want to explain the functional thing that you are trying to
do.
Each computer probably has the Localhost resolution in its Host file,
and it resolved to it self not across the Network.
Jack (MVP-Networking).
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I need to set up News Proxy to point at the localhost/127.0.0.1 as i
want to use the filter facility with Outlook Express it wants to moniter
the local host.

Regards Len
 
Jack (MVP-Networking). said:
Hi
Look at the Host file in each computer and find the status of the
localhost entry.
http://www.ezlan.net/host.html
Jack (MVP-Networking).
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Thanks, most interesting too, i wasnt aware of that.

I checked on both machines and each has a Hosts file in the location
described and both those file equate localhost to 127.0.0.1

Regards Len
 
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