Gaylen,

Have you tried re-starting IIS?

~~Bonnie

>I use to test web application (Foxpro and asp pages)locally using localhost or ip address 127.0.0.1.
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>Now I get "cannot find page" using localhost and "connection refused" when I use 127.0.0.1. However, I static ip address can call the pages.
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>I can ping both local host and 127.0.0.1 and they respond correctly.
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>One error message said it might be a miss-configured local DNS server, but I haven't found anything yet to tell me how to reconfigure my local DNS server.
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>Anyone experience this before. How can I get my web server to recognize 'localhost' again.
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>I am using window xp professional.
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>Thanks
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>Gaylen