#676992 iceweasel: Cannot connect to localhost aliases defined in /etc/hosts when network is not connected #676992
- Package:
- iceweasel
- Source:
- firefox-esr
- Submitter:
- "Laurent Martelli"
- Date:
- 2025-09-18 07:31:25 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
- Tags:
Dear Maintainer, When there's no network connection, Iceweal is unable to connect to localhost through an alias defined in /etc/hosts. I've also tested upstream 13.0, and it has the same issue. I have the following line in my /etc/hosts : 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost test If I unplug the network and launch iceweal, it cannot connect to http://test/ and says "server not found".
src:iceweasel has been superseded by src:firefox-esr in version 45.0esr-1 in March 2016. Transitional packages to ease upgrades were provided in the wheezy, jessie, stretch and buster releases. The transitional packages have been removed finally before the bullseye release in August 2021. After regular security support for buster ended in August 2022 and LTS support ended in June 2024, I'm closing the remaining bug reports now. Andreas