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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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Squid proxy does not consider localhost traffic

I installed squid on Kali linux, configured my browser to send whole traffic through squid. However, squid doesn't consider localhost traffic. Actually, I run this command to check log file while I'm browsing: tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log It…
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IIS 7.5 Domain Restriction working but not IP

We have a web service that we are trying to impose access restrictions on in production. This web service lies on LAN based internal server. It is called from web applications sitting on the same server and web applications sitting on a DMZ server.…
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Overriding the DNS for a domain is not working

My clients' website is live at this moment, and I am migrating the website to my new Web Hosting Server. I already uploaded the site to the new server. Before changing the DNS, I am testing the site by modifying my hosts' file (windows local…
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Socket support using wamp in windows 7

I'm running windows 7 and using WAMP for my local development. Now I Installed Cultbooking (sourceforge.net/projects/cultbooking/) in my wamp and can't finish my installation because it says sock "Socket support - Socket not supported". I don't know…
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127.0.0.1 corrupted

I can't access my local printers with \\127.0.0.1\printername. Windows XP gives me an error message in my language which roughly translate to : "Impossible to complete this operation. You have entered a wrong printer name or the specified printer is…
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Can't reach native ip 192.168.1.5 via Browser(Windows Server 2016 Datacenter)

On a Windows Server 2016 Datacenter The default website can be accessed by local host and 127.0.0.1, but native IP(192.168.1.5) cannot be accessed. What could cause this issue? iis bind localhost 127.0.0.1 native ip network ping
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Nginx static file configuration for CenotOS 7 Minimal Installation

I have a brand new VM with CenotOS 7 Minimal Installation. What I want to happen is to configure Nginx to serve static files from a directory on localhost:80. My directory is /home/kenny/projects/kcrypt/dist/. Here are the contents of my…
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What happens if i connect to a used localhost port?

Im new to this discipline, so please just dont blast me. I have Apache in localhost. localhost:8080 Is it correct to say that 8080 is the port used to comunicate beetween client and server ? What happens if a want to use a port that is already used…
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Is it a security risk to run a local node server next to public web api?

I am currently running a public web api that runs on PHP. I was thinking of adding a local node server with which the PHP can interact. It would allow me to do stuff like passing off long running operation to node, allowing me to respond to the user…
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Is it possible to have full SSL security on localhost services?

I've been reading a lot about SSL certificate as of late and trying to get my localhost services to have SSL certificates to avoid warnings and whatnot. These services are 100% local, their ports are NEVER exposed to the outside. I understand that…
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How to mirror aws ec2-instance (production) to my local ubuntu desktop

i have aws ec2-instance live server (which runs on drupal CMS), i want to make a staging server for that live on my local ubunut desktop
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Create DNS for a wilcard subdomain that is localhost

I'm trying to create DNS for wildcard subdomains that run on localhost. It's not working. The main domain is fine but the sub domains are pointing to an external server instead. Here's what I have: In /etc/named.conf: zone "typeflex" IN { type…
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Mongod service running but not connecting in browser

Background: Using vagrant virtual box running Ubuntu on a macbook Having installed the mongoid gem in a new rails application I am given localhost:27017 as the port that the mongodb server is running on. From the command line, I am able to…
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localhost send SYN to localhost not receiving ACK

My server setup is nginx directly connects to a node.js server (nginx and node.js are in the same node and nginx is forwarding request to node.js: 127.0.0.1:8000). The symptom is sometimes there are some 504 logs in nginx log. And node.js log…
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Proxying only subdomains of localhost

I'm trying to figure out how to proxy requests to subdomains of localhost to another port on Apache, but not proxy requests only to localhost (with no subdomains). I can't get it to work. Here is what I have come up with so far. …
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