Konqueror can't connect to http://localhost/ if eth0 down

[Doug]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Konqueror can't connect to http://localhost/ if eth0 down
> From: Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
> Date: Wed, May 16, 2007 8:48 am
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what the mechanism is that prevents Konqueror
> finding _any_ website if there's no active network connection?
> 
> The 'lo' interface is up: 
> # ifconfig lo
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:14598707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:14598707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:2044771500 (1.9 GiB)  TX bytes:2044771500 (1.9 GiB)
> 
> Both Firefox and telnet will happily connect to my local web server on
> localhost:80, yet konqueror says:
> 
> "Could not connect to host http://localhost/."
> 
> I _do_ need to be testing this stuff on Firefox, but I'd far rather
> use it
> only as a final check - firefox is too much of a resource pig to want to
> run it all the time.
> -- 
> derek
> 

I just shut down my networking to see if I could reproduce the error and
Konqueror worked correctly with http://localhost/


Doug