I did this and it worked until I rebooted Windows 2000, then it stopped.

>dear sir,
>
>i have encountered that same problem when i installed IIS on my win2kpro. my computer's name is zion. so my goal was to be able to run my ASPs using http://zion/ and http://localhost/ i have tried to resolve the problem by doing this:
>
>[on IIS]
>i right-clicked on the default WWW site then clicked properties
>i filled out the following Website Identfication
> - description: zion
> - ip address: [all unassigned]
> - i click the Advanced button
>[for my localhost]
> - on the 1st frame i clicked "all unassigned" then click edit
> - then i typed in Identification:
> - ip add: all unassigned
> - tcp port: 80
> - host header name: localhost (then ok)
>[for my comp. name zion]
> - on the 1st frame again i clicked the add button and typed the following infomation
> - ip add: all unassigned
> - tcp port: 80
> - host header name: zion (then ok)
> - tcp port: 80
>
>using a testfile called default.html (btw, u have to add this in the Documents because the predefined default pages on IIS are Default.htm and Default.asp only) i tested on the browser both http://localhost/default.html and http://zion/default.html and it both worked ok.
>
>i just thought i'd share this with you incase it would be of any help.
>
>thanks.