You should check your hosts file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc.

Make sure it has an entry:

127.0.0.1    localhost

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.

Carter



On 1/18/2018 1:55 PM, Phil Smith III wrote:
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 [mailto:stunnel-users-bounces@stunnel.org] On Behalf Of peter@easthope.ca
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2018 1:13 PM
To: stunnel-users@stunnel.org
Subject: [stunnel-users] Re (2): Problems with stunnel and cox.net on Windows 7

From:	"Phil Smith III" <phs3stuff@cox.net>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2018 12:47:47 -0500

while the output= wasn't accepted (it said it wasn't valid there),

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?


changing 127.0.0.1 to localhost seems to have fixed it!

What does "nslookup localhost" report?

Regards,        ... P.