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Localhost is an address/term used for testing connection to the local host (current computer) used for some network troubleshooting

localhost (all lowercase) (meaning this computer in computer networking) and is the standard hostname given to the loopback network interface.

IPv4

Under IPv4 the standard localhost address is normally assigned to:

127.0.0.1

IPv6

In full notation, the address under IPv6 is:

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1
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Trying to get rid of localhost in outgoing email -- Sendmail

I'm running sendmail and I've appeared on the CBL. I've already fixed a couple issues, but I can't figure out how to get rid of these last two localhost mentions. I commented out the localhost line in my /etc/hosts file and I made sure that there's…
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Problem with tomcat and getLocalHost exception

I'm running a Linux server named S1 in a "cloud" server, and when tomcat 6.0.24 starts, I get the exception: org.apache.catalina.connector.Connector pause SEVERE: Protocol handler pause failed java.net.UnknownHostException: S1: S1 at…
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Why don't ports resolve correctly for localhost and {my server name}?

I set up VisualSVN Server, and SQL Server on my local machine. VisualSVN was set up to use https://dell/svn/ as the repository root. I was connecting to SQL Server using "localhost". At some point I made a change to some Windows setting, and now…
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used colons for url htaccess http://localhost/1:1

I have a problem with the colons used in url this my url http://localhost/1:1 this my htaccess RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/(.*):(.*) index.php/$1:$2 this error show Forbidden You don't have permission to access /1:1 on this server. # Virtual…
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Browser Downloading ASP App Instead of Displaying

Windows Server 2012 R2 / IIS 8.5 In IIS > Sites > Default Website I have an (ASP) application, when I visit the localhost URL a file is downloaded instead of the page being displayed. The files are located at C:\inetpub\wwwroot\rooms and within this…
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What does "localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself" mean?

I know that the Windows hosts file maps host names to IP addresses. But there is no mapping for localhost. Instead it has a comment that says this: # localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself. # 127.0.0.1 localhost I don't…
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Web server on remote, is it possible to ssh to remote and have local browser connect to server?

On a headless remote machine which I connect to via ssh and do not have sudo privileges, I have an interactive python script with a console interface. I want to use a simple web framework like flask or bottle to create a locally hosted web interface…
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CURL Cannot Resolve Host running on MAMP

I have a MAMP PRO set up with local SSL certificates for a url named qph-plugin.local which is running a wordpress site. When I view the site in the browser on my machine it all works as expected. When I make a request to the url with postman it…
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No ping localhost after starting RAS service with demand-dial PPPoE connection

I have a big problem on my Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 SP2 non-R2: There is no ping to 127.0.0.1: Request timeout. Ping to ::1 (localhost on IPv6) is still alive. I mean, server has no interface 127.0.0.1 at all! So ping absence is just a…
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Changing from Localhost to Computer Name Throws 403 Error (Tomcat 9)

I am trying to run Tomcat 9. I have configured it to run with SSL. So when I am accessing the tomcat URL with: https://localhost:8443/manager/html It works fine. But when I try to run it with my computer name I get the 403 error saying I should…
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If I have user/host pair "root@", is it necessary to keep "root@localhost" in the mysql host/users table? (multi-part Q)

On computer "dexwin10", the user@host pair is as follows: root@dexwin10 root@% root@localhost When people install our software, we want them to be able to access the database from computers other than just their own. This tells me localhost…
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MDNS response “storm” with “localhost_prl: 127.0.0.1”

We are experiencing occasional performance problems in our WIFI. With Wireshark I see a high number (currently 50/s) of MDNS responses for localhost_prl:127.0.0.1. I don't think that this is normal. A MDNS response with 127.0.0.1 seem pointless to…
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How to connect to localhost in Docker in Windows Server 2016

Background: Am using Windows Server 2016 Have installed Containers Have installed Docker (not Docker Desktop / Docker for Windows): https://docs.docker.com/install/windows/docker-ee/ Have multiple containers running on the same server I need…
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Unable to make named virtual hosts work on windows-docker-nginx

Windows version: 10 Docker for Windows: 2.0.0.2 (30215) Nginx: latest Docker-compose.yml: version: '3.7' services: nginx: restart: always image: nginx:latest ports: - "8000:80" volumes: -…
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What is localhost.webcache in tcpdump

I'm trying to verify that a user is actually logging into my machine and I figured out that looking at tcpdump would be reasonable. I'm using the new omhttp module for Rsyslog to send logs via http from localhost to localhost (dest is…
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