Comments on: Localhost doesn't work? Can't debug your .Net web app? This may be your answer.

By: procsee

procsee — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:36:02 +0000

Damn… Even after 4 years, still this article does the job! Thanks a lot.

We are in 2010 god dammit!

By: Majid

Majid — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:10:07 +0000

Thank you…

By: Igor

Igor — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:58:01 +0000

Actually you don’t need to remove IPv6 =)
Just comment line “::1 localhost” ib your hosts file (%windir%\system32\drivers\etc\)

By: Boris

Boris — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:03:50 +0000

Thanks, I owe you one )

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:37:40 +0000

You, sir, are a hero! I owe you a pint. There’s more information at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wcf/thread/36f57ccf-7a76-4843-84bd-7bb945aad23f/
but broadly it boils down to the fact that not everything in MS application space understands what [::1] means. Given that your wrote your original post in early 2006 and it’s now nearly 3 years later … well!

By: Marlow

Marlow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:21:07 +0000

I had a similar problem – I had a .net application that during the install would prompt the user for the machine name where a SQL instance was located: the default is “localhost”.

My issue ended up being as simple as the IP address for my DNS servers had changed and I didn’t know it. Once I the TCP/IP properties for my machine with the new IP address for DNS, the application I was testing started working again.

I do have to say thank you for your post – because it sent me down the path to check this.

Thanks!

By: Gustav

Gustav — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:19:23 +0000

Thank you Dusty. This problem had me by the neck!

By: Veselin

Veselin — Thu, 22 May 2008 14:06:03 +0000

thank you!

By: Lucian

Lucian — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:14:00 +0000

Thank you very much, Dusty.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:49:00 +0000

thanks!