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Firefox cannot connect to a local servers subdomain if no network connection available.

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Songy
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Hello there,

I have a laptop which is configured as a local server using Apache. On it I use 'localhost' as the domain and have several subdomains. Now, if I have no network connection (to any other device) available on this laptop, then with Firefox I am only able to access the domain 'localhost' but none of the subdomains and get a 'Server not found' error on these. If I do have a network connection, I can access the domain and subdomains without any problem.

What could it be and what can I do to get it to work without a network connection? I also tried it with Opera and Chrome and they can access the subdomains either way. Sadly however I prefer Firefox, so yeah.. here I am.

Kind regards Song

Hello there, I have a laptop which is configured as a local server using Apache. On it I use 'localhost' as the domain and have several subdomains. Now, if I have no network connection (to any other device) available on this laptop, then with Firefox I am only able to access the domain 'localhost' but none of the subdomains and get a 'Server not found' error on these. If I do have a network connection, I can access the domain and subdomains without any problem. What could it be and what can I do to get it to work without a network connection? I also tried it with Opera and Chrome and they can access the subdomains either way. Sadly however I prefer Firefox, so yeah.. here I am. Kind regards Song

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Did you troubleshoot your network connection on the Options menu? Firefox can't load websites but other browsers can

If the internet did not set up correctly you may have a firewall set up? http://www.aboutdebian.com/network.htm is what I used as a reference.

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guigs
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Did you troubleshoot your network connection on the Options menu? Firefox can't load websites but other browsers can

If the internet did not set up correctly you may have a firewall set up? http://www.aboutdebian.com/network.htm is what I used as a reference.

Songy
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Thanks for the quick reply guigs2,

setting 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to false (default is true) did the trick.

That's one thing I didn't try out the when I read through Firefox and other browsers can't load websites the first time around... Oh well.

Cheers!