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<font face="Century Gothic">You should check your hosts file in
\windows\system32\drivers\etc.<br>
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Make sure it has an entry:<br>
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127.0.0.1 localhost<br>
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The text claims it doesn't need it, but it doesn't hurt to have
it, and I'm not sure I totally believe the text.<br>
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Carter<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/18/2018 1:55 PM, Phil Smith III
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:036e01d3908d$dc6d5ea0$95481be0$@cox.net">
<pre wrap="">Oh, the logging works--it just doesn't like it there in the file. I have it earlier and it's fine.
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C:\Users\phsiii>ls -ld \temp\stunnel-log.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 phsiii None 266835 Jan 18 08:52 \temp\stunnel-log.txt
# That's Cygwin ls -- remember, this is Windows 7
C:\Users\phsiii>nslookup localhost
Server: UnKnown
Address: 2001:4860:4860::8888
*** UnKnown can't find localhost: No response from server
# Windows nslookup (per "which nslookup")
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Odd.
-----Original Message-----
From: stunnel-users [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org">mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org</a>] On Behalf Of <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:peter@easthope.ca">peter@easthope.ca</a>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:13 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:stunnel-users@stunnel.org">stunnel-users@stunnel.org</a>
Subject: [stunnel-users] Re (2): Problems with stunnel and cox.net on Windows 7
From: "Phil Smith III" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:phs3stuff@cox.net"><phs3stuff@cox.net></a>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:47:47 -0500
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<pre wrap="">while the output= wasn't accepted (it said it wasn't valid there),
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Does the file exist? If not, can stunnel create it?
Can you read it with an editor. Can you write into it interactively?
What does "ls -ld C:\temp\stunnel-log.txt" or Win equivalent give?
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<pre wrap="">changing 127.0.0.1 to localhost seems to have fixed it!
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What does "nslookup localhost" report?
Regards, ... P.
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