1176190 - URL '*.google' (for example, abc.google) redirects to 'localhost'

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[inamdar.tejas1990]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.76 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

URL '*.google' (for example, abc.google) redirects to 'localhost'

Browse 'http://abc.google'
'http://localhost' opens


Actual results:

'http://localhost' opens


Expected results:

Navigate to default 'search' engine (search 'abc.google')

Comment 1

[Loic]

It's a DNS redirection, I don't have this on Win 7, Firefox just says there is a loading issue.

Comment 2

[[:Towkir] Ahmed]

Can you please check this directory "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc"
There is a file hosts, open the file in notepad and check if there is any difference between your file and this one http://prntscr.com/7jvz85

if there is anything more than localhost beside the IP 127.0.0.1

"127.0.0.1     localhost"

you can try removing those, and try from other browsers too.

Comment 3

[[:Towkir] Ahmed]

Is it really a valid bug ? should it be marked as invalid Loic ?
There is no response from the reporter for a long