Re: [gentoo-user] Issues pinging localhost and starting apache.

[Mark Shields]

On Nov 22, 2007 7:45 PM, Jordan Woehr <jwoehr1@×××××.net> wrote:

> *I first encounter this problem while trying to setup Apache for my
> machine. I only want it to run locally on my network. First issue, I try
> to start Apache and have it listen to port 80 but it won't start with
> the error:*
>
> apache2ctl start
>  * Caching service dependencies
> ...                                       [ ok ]
>  * Starting apache2 ...
> (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address
> 0.0.0.0:80
> no listening sockets available, shutting down
> Unable to open logs
>
> *The only lines I have added to httpd.conf are as follows:
> *
> ServerName localhost
> Listen 80
>
> *Having Apache listen on port 8080 instead results in it starting fine.
> Thing is, I'm pretty sure nothing is listening on port 80.*
>
> netstat -an | grep :80
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.104:56125     66.150.96.119:80
> ESTABLISHED
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.104:56123     66.150.96.119:80
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.104:36115     208.65.201.178:80
> TIME_WAIT
> tcp        0      0 192.168.0.104:45155     205.150.218.4:80
> ESTABLISHED
>
> *I was not happy with Apache not starting listening to port 80 but I
> started it on 8080 instead. Tried  going to  localhost:8080 in firefox
> but received an unable to establish connection error.
>
>  From there I went to my hosts file which is as follows
>
> *127.0.0.1       localhost
>
> *Tried scanning 127.0.0.1 with nmap:
>
> *nmap -sT -PT 127.0.0.1
>
> Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2007-11-22 17:11 MST
> Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes,
> try -P0
> Nmap finished: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.342 seconds
>
> *And now a ping
> *
> ping -c 5 localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
>  From 10.132.0.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
>  From 10.132.0.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Net Unreachable
>  From 10.132.0.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Net Unreachable
>  From 10.132.0.1 icmp_seq=5 Destination Net Unreachable
>
> --- localhost ping statistics ---
> 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, +4 errors, 100% packet loss, time
> 4000ms
>
> *localhost seems to be resolved properly to 127.0.0.1 but what I don't
> understand is where the 10.132.0.1 comes from. This computer's ip on the
> network is 192.168.0.104 (static) and my ip on the internet is
> 77.something.something.something (was when I did the ping at least).
>
> I hope the above is enough information. Suggestions on why Apache won't
> start listening on port 80 and why I can't connect to localhost:8080
> from firefox when Apache is running are welcome.
>
> Thanks
> Jordan
> *
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>
This may sound like a silly question, but is loopback running
(/etc/init.d/lo)?

-- 
- Mark Shields