Gaylen,
There sould be a "hosts" file in \winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ . it should have something like as follows:

127.0.0.1 localhost


>Thanks Bonnie
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>Yes I tried restarting IIS.
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>When I click on localhost.com which is a url on the "cannot find page" error page it goes out to a site called localhost.com. The web site said I probably got there because of an error and described my problem as probably a miss-configuration of local DNS server. They indicated that I should place a record in my DNS tables for a localhost in my local domain with the address 127.0.0.1.
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>However they did not say how to do this. I looked all through the help files and found nothing.
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>Incidently, Saturday morning Comcast converted my Excite cable connection over to their system. As a result I now have a new ip address, but would not think that should affect the localhost connection.
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>I have thought about reinstalling IIS - however, I am concerned about losing all my current virtual directories that I have set up.
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>Gaylen
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>>Gaylen,
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>>Have you tried re-starting IIS?
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>>~~Bonnie
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>>>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
>>>
>>>Gaylen