[wellylug] Problem accessing local URL with browser

[Roger Young]

> Is anything listening on 2080? Run netstat -tapn | grep 2080 on 'beauty'.

I guess that's the problem -- nothing is listening.
I'll have to look at the installation of my FE
program to figure out why.

Thanks Cliff!

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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:59:35 +1200
Cliff Pratt <enkidu at cliffp.com> wrote:

> Roger Young wrote:
> > Thanks Jethro,
> > 
> >> what exactly do you mean by:
> >>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
> >>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). 
> > 
> >    Well, it's an FE program which uses the browser
> >    to access documentation. I have to connect to the
> >    local address 
> > 
> >     http://beauty:2080/v6.5/index.html
> >
> Is anything listening on 2080? Run netstat -tapn | grep 2080 on 'beauty'.
>  >
> >> have you made sure your firewall is not blocking connections on that
> >> port?
> >>
> >> (try "telnet beauty 2080" -it should connect to the webserver. If not,
> >> the firewall is a likely cause.)
> > 
> >    You're right, I do have a firewall set up (in the router), and if 
> >    I try to connect to that particular port then I get
> > 
> >    root at Beauty:/etc# telnet beauty 2080
> >    Trying 10.1.1.2...
> >    telnet: connect to address 10.1.1.2: Connection refused
> >
> "Connection refused" says nothing is listening on that address/port. 
> It's what I get if I 'telnet mymachine some_random_port'.
> 
> (Well, that's *one* of the things it could mean).
>  >
> >    But I don't really understand because only incoming filters are
> >    operating, there are no outgoing filters. Since I am behind
> >    the firewall, I didn't think there would be a problem. What do
> >    I have to do to fix the problem?
> >
> It doesn't appear to be a firewall issue. If it were a firewall issue it 
> would likely hang and/or timeout.
>  >
> >    Roger
> > .................................................................
> > 
> > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:19:59 +1200
> > Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 22:14 +1200, Roger Young wrote:
> >>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
> >>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). At least it tries to,
> >>> but the internet proxy (Privoxy) reports that
> >>>
> >>> "Your request for http://beauty:2080/v6.5/index.html could 
> >>> not be fulfilled, because the connection to 
> >>> beauty (10.1.1.2) could not be established."
> >>>
> >>> I can telnet successfully to this IP number. If I disable the
> >>> proxy then I get a "connection was refused" error. I'm not
> >>> sure where to look next. Can someone enlighten me?
> >> what exactly do you mean by:
> >>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
> >>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). 
> >>
> >> suggestions - sounds obvious, but always a possibility:
> >>
> >> have you made sure your firewall is not blocking connections on that
> >> port?
> >>
> >> (try "telnet beauty 2080" -it should connect to the webserver. If not,
> >> the firewall is a likely cause.)
> >>
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cliff
> 
> 
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