[SOLVED] connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost

[Lakshmipathi]

hi all,
I'm getting following error when i try to access localhost
"connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost"
what's this mean?what should i do ?
Actually it worked fine for a while ...then it's throws the above msg.
my /etc/hosts file entries
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.232.30.25 pc012345.xyz.com pc012345
when i run the command hostname it shows
pc012345

please help me out..

[objuan]

hi all,
I'm getting following error when i try to access localhost
"connection was refused when attempting to contact localhost"

Hi
were did this host name come from 10.232.30.25 pc012345.xyz.com pc012345
your hostname is referring to pc012345 as the host name

[Lakshmipathi]

Hi
were did this host name come from 10.232.30.25 pc012345.xyz.com pc012345
your hostname is referring to pc012345 as the host name

I'm working in LAN under domain name xyz.com.
While installing spikesource ,it worked only when i added
10.232.30.25 pc012345.xyz.com pc012345
in /etc/hosts
i believe the information is not sufficent for other to help....
I'm don't have much networking knowlegde..(domain name,proxy etc..etc...)

[objuan]

Sorry I took so long to get back to you.
All you need in the hosts file is the ipaddress and hostname besides the local host
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
10.232.30.25 pc012345

Try this I hope it helps.

[Lakshmipathi]

thanks....

[Lakshmipathi]

No ....again i'm unable to connect to localhost but i can connect to web sites like this....
any know what's going wrong....i don't have any idea abt how 2 fix this

[Lakshmipathi]

Editing /etc/hosts with correct your IP address and then make sure having
Primary DNS server name /etc/resolv.conf along with
setting ipaddress with default gateway

/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1

Solved the issue.