UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hello!

I am trying to perform a test using chatzilla, the problem is my machine is not on a network so I am trying to prove I can communicate through local host. This way it will hit the nic go through and come back on the other side. All the configurations I have tried irc.local.host:6667 and a couple others fail when trying to allow connection.

I have eth0 set to 127.0.0.1 ip address and my firewall turned off during testing.

Any ideas?

Don't set eth0 to 127.0.0.1, set it to 192.168.0.100 or something like that. You can connect to that just as well without worrying about conflicting with the lo device.

And make sure the name you're connecting to is in /etc/hosts, otherwise it'll have no way to know what you want.

Thank you for your response.

When I bring up chatzilla and configure global settings startup it is looking for a URL. I am using local.host so what should the address look like?

Then I add the address into my /etc/hosts file?

You would add a record into /etc/hosts such that you use your IP address (e.g. 192.168.0.100 as suggested above)

Code:

192.168.0.100       local.host

If there are already entries in here, that should not be a problem, unless they use the same name.



I hope that this helps,
Robin

You can put an IP address into a URL.

Thank you I am getting further, the log says

cz: can't send to disconnected socket
cz: sendQue flushed

What log?

What exactly are you doing, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke?

What does netstat -an show? Is anything listening on the IP and port you expect?