Re: [LI] Perl & Browser config

["Gurunandan R. Bhat" <grbhat@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, L.V.Gandhi wrote:

> I am having standalone m/c with RH6.1.
> I have the following lines in /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1	lvghomepc.visakha	lvghomepc
> 192.168.1.1	lvghomepc.visakha	lvghomepc
> 192.168.1.10	dgmpspc.visakha	dgmpspc
> 
> when I ask for http://lvghomepc or http://127.0.0.1, iget apache page.
> In case of http://192.168.1.1, idon't get anything. I get msg unable to
> connect to remote host.
> Why the latter one is not recognised.

Have you bound the IP address 192.168.1.1 to an interface? If you haven't
then you might like to bind it to the loopback interface (atleast), if you
do not have a NIC/PPP interface with the ifconfig command. ("ifconfig lo
192.168.1.1", but see manpage)


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