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I am serving a website from localhost, my /etc/hosts contains
127.0.0.1 foo.com
If I navigate to foo.com in Firefox, the site works...
...unless the Internet connection is down, then Firefox won't navigate to foo.com, it will report Server not found.
Other software (ping, elinks) can reach foo.com regardless.
How can I make Firefox realise it can still connect to localhost?
spraff
Posted 2016-12-23T23:02:45.317
Reputation: 1 238
what version of firefox are you using? See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967792. Seems there was a key added (network.dns.offline-localhost) to fix that issue, but it looks like it was added a while back. If you're on a really old version of firefox, try updating (or if on newer version, check that key in about:config).
– MaQleod – 2016-12-24T06:26:36.983