Re: httpd connection refused message
Kevin J. Cummings <cummings <at> kjchome.homeip.net>
2002-10-05 05:13:09 GMT
Thanks to everyone who responded. I finally today fixed the problem
(but not before my ISP renumbered my network *again*! Turns out it was
a Mozilla cache problem. When I cleared out Mozilla's caches,
everything was fine again. Sigh! Seems Mozilla somehow remembers the
old IP address of a cached page, even if it may have changed! (I had a
9 day timeout on my cached pages.)
Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Hi folks,
> My ISP renumbered their network Monday morning (at midnight) and my
> cable modem got hung. I called tech support to get the cable modem to
> unhang, and my network came back with the new address (after I ifup'ed
> again). My problem is that ever since then, whenever I try and access
> my home WWW page, I get the message:
>
> The connection was refused when attempting to contact
> kjchome.homeip.net:81
>
> I am running apache on port 81 because my ISP is blocking port 80 access
> (thank you Code Red!). This was working for a LONG time previous to
> this incident.
>
> I have NO PROBLEM if I use an internal network name or IP address, but I
> cannot seem to use the eth1 network name or IP address. I get a
> different error if I try the external address port 80 (which is due to
> the port 80 port blocking, no?) So, what has changed so that I
cannot use:
>
> httpd://kjchome.homeip.net:81
>
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