822573 - DNS hosts file ignored when offline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 698302

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Description

[franck.jousseaume]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121119183901

Steps to reproduce:

1. Put 'foobar.localhost    127.0.0.1' in my /etc/hosts file
2. make sure there are no open mozillas
3. Disconnect from network (unplug ethernet or turn off airport)
4. start a new mozilla
5. try to go to foobar.localhost (when running a local web server)


Actual results:

Site Not Found error in Mozilla.  Other browsers (chromium and opera) work fine.


Expected results:

Should have seen localhost web site.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you have a proxy configured ?
make sure that "no proxy" is configured in preferences/advanced/network/settings

Comment 2

[franck.jousseaume]

(In reply to Matthias Versen (Matti) from comment #1)
> Do you have a proxy configured ?
> make sure that "no proxy" is configured in
> preferences/advanced/network/settings

"no proxy" is already configured.

Comment 3

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

try file->WORK ONLINE

Comment 4

[franck.jousseaume]

Not the same error, but not better :
online (but without network connection): It doesn't work because firefox can't find foobar.localhost
offline : It doesn't work because firefox can't access to the web.

Comment 5

[Loic]

Side effect of bug 150025 maybe?

Comment 6

[franck.jousseaume]

It spoke only about localhost but my problem is with every domains in hosts file. So, this bug is more generic.
But, indeed, the bug 150025 can be explain if the hosts file is ignored as I said in this one.

Comment 7

[fcheslack]

I believe I'm also affected by this. In my case it causes problems with domains in my hosts file that point to localhost but have domains that look real. 

bug 150025 presumably explains why I can load localhost/site1 but not localtest.mydomain.net/site1 when they point to the same thing, and localtest.mydomain.net gets