Closed Bug 1017124 Opened 11 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Can't connect to server running on local machine when network is down

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: jgraham, Unassigned)

Details

I am using the web-platform-tests testsuite [1], which comes with its own server. This is bound to the host "web-platform.test" and port 8000. /etc/hosts associates web-platform.test with 127.0.0.1. When the system network is up, this works fine; I can load http://web-platform.test:8000 without issue. When the system network is down (e.g. because I have lost WiFi signal) the page won't load. It feels like this is a recent regression because otherwise I would have noticed before, but I'm not sure. [1] https://github.com/w3c/web-platform-tests
we did add code to allow this fairly recently
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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