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

[Derek Broughton]

Doug wrote:

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

Well, damn, that's not at all helpful :-(  At least if it worked the same
way for you, we'd have another clue.

Actually, maybe I do have a clue.  What does "route" say?  Mine doesn't look
right:

# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.22.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     1000   0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.22.1    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

In the first place, none of those say "lo" - surely there should be a route
for 127.0.0.0 with mask 255.0.0.0?

Secondly there's that oh-so-annoying zeroconf address, which I told KDE to
turn off...(not that I think it's connected, but having the system pretend
it's on a network when it isn't causes me other problems).
-- 
derek