Ping localhost not work when not connected to the Internet.
dan...@my-deja.com
I have a Windows 95 system. When I make "ping localhost" in the MS-DOS
prompt I get the message :
"Bad IP address localhost."
I have TCP/IP installed. I am able to connect to the Internet, and so
ping any address (by name or IP) with no problems. When I am connected
with the Internet the ping localhost command works fine.
In the file hosts.sam I have the line :
127.0.0.1 localhost
What is wrong ?
Thanks and sorry my bad English.
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catcat
an Unix tradition. (the .sam extension is added by MS means "samples")
Have a good one
dan...@my-deja.com
wrote:
> First attempt, rename the file "hosts.sam" to "hosts", no extension,
it's
> an Unix tradition. (the .sam extension is added by MS means "samples")
>
I made this but it did not work. The first attempt failed. We go to
see second :-)
Thanks catcat.
> > I have a Windows 95 system. When I make "ping localhost" in the
MS-DOS
> > prompt I get the message :
> >
> > "Bad IP address localhost."
> > ...
Kent W. England
hosts.sam file over to hosts (with no extension) and then retry. If you
already have a hosts file, it is missing the localhost entry. Add it or
overwrite it with hosts.sam.
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<dan...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have a Windows 95 system. When I make "ping localhost" in the MS-DOS
> prompt I get the message :
>
> "Bad IP address localhost."
>
catcat
Have a good one
dan...@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <380588C4...@axionet.com>, catcat <cat...@axionet.com>
> wrote:
> > First attempt, rename the file "hosts.sam" to "hosts", no extension,
> it's
> > an Unix tradition. (the .sam extension is added by MS means "samples")
> >
>
> I made this but it did not work. The first attempt failed. We go to
> see second :-)
> Thanks catcat.
>
> > > I have a Windows 95 system. When I make "ping localhost" in the
> MS-DOS
> > > prompt I get the message :
> > >
> > > "Bad IP address localhost."
dan...@my-deja.com
> Do you have a windows\hosts file with no extension? If not, copy the
> hosts.sam file over to hosts (with no extension) and then retry. If
you
> already have a hosts file, it is missing the localhost entry. Add it
or
> overwrite it with hosts.sam.
>
I did it. See message 2 and 3 of this thread in Dejanews. Don't work.
Thanks.
dan...@my-deja.com
> What about ping your computer's IP address?
Ping 127.0.0.1 works fine. I don't have other IP address because it is
a standalone computer.
dan...@my-deja.com
dan...@my-deja.com wrote:
> I have a Windows 95 system. When I make "ping localhost" in the MS-DOS
> prompt I get the message :
>
> "Bad IP address localhost."
I did not arrive at no solution for the problem. But I stow making
some tests that can become the cause of the problem clearest.
The computer where this is happening is not connected to a network. It
possesss only the dial-up adapter and the protocol TCP/IP.
Protocol TCP/IP is configured to get the address IP automatically,
therefore this is the configuration for access my ISP. If in the
configuration of the TCP/IP I to place a fixed IP address I am able to
make ping localhost when off-line successfully. This was only one test,
cannot leave thus therefore in this in case that I cannot have access
the Internet.
Thus it seems that the Windows demands that I have a protocol TCP/IP
with fixed address to function.
The question is: how I make this to function if I do not have network
card ?