Ars Technica

Windows 7 PC will get IP address, but can't ping anything, not even localhost

A friend of mine has had an issue crop up on her laptop recently, so I offered to take a look at it. It has me totally stumped though, so I'm hoping the hive mind can help me out. Essentially, the ...
Ars Technica

What the hey, can ftp to localhost but not actual IP address

No firewall on this box (at least not that I know of), outbound stuff works just fine, but I cannot (even from the local machine) ftp to it's actual IP address, 192.168.1.102, althouhg 127. works fine ...
Bleeping Computer

WSL2 Now Supports Localhost Connections From Windows 10 Apps

With the release of the Windows 10 Insider build 18945, the Windows Subsystem for Linux version 2 now supports the ability for Windows 10 applications to connect to WSL2 apps via localhost. When WSL2 ...
Linux Journal

Localhost DNS Cache

Is it weird to say that DNS is my favorite protocol? Because DNS is my favorite protocol. There's something about the simplicity of UDP packets combined with the power of a service that the entire ...