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localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

Sun, 11/04/2007 - 10:22 — mmoo9154

I just installed Coova and selected the Embedded Portal HotSpot configuration.

I must be doing something wrong because when I try to access a web page, the Coova redirect page shows for a minute, and then it pops to a fairly long and mangled URL starting with "Http://localhost.ap.coova.org:3442/www/login.chi?...".

The page can't be found because localhost.ap.coova.org doesn't resolve with DNS.

Mkes me think there's something not configured right, but I can't find it. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

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Thu, 03/06/2008 - 08:04 — david

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

And to think, you're not even running windows!

Yes, browsers cache DNS themselves...

Thu, 03/06/2008 - 02:17 — timscole

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

OK, fixed it! The issue is not with the Access Point but the client. I rebooted the Mac OS X laptop and it worked fine. I guess it cached something from yesterday, I've changed the internal IPs since then.

Top IT tip - always try the reboot, clients and servers! ;)

Thu, 03/06/2008 - 01:30 — timscole

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

Nope:

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost OpenWrt
1.1.1.1 exit exit.lan
1.1.1.1 logout logout.lan
10.1.0.1 localhost.ap.coova.org
192.168.1.1 localhost.ap.coova.org

If I replace localhost.ap.coova.org with 10.1.0.1 in the browser it works and takes me to the login / signup page.

Client is Safari on Mac OS X. It worked briefly yesterday, but I've reloaded the firmware a couple of times and erased the nvram since then (it stopped working before I did this).

Any other ideas?

Wed, 03/05/2008 - 21:09 — david

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

You can try SSH'ing into the router, and do:cat /etc/hoststo see the contents of the hosts file. If the localhost.ap.coova.org entry is missing, which it seems (though, should be added automatically during startup), you can add it with:echo "192.168.1.1 localhost.ap.coova.org" >> /etc/hosts(where 192.168.1.1 is your uamlisten IP address - adjust as needed)

Wed, 03/05/2008 - 18:02 — timscole

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

I have the same problem. Have tried rebooting the router, no change. Any other ideas?

Sun, 11/04/2007 - 10:28 — david

Re: localhost.ap.coova.org:3442 Failure

That hostname gets resolved in the router (/etc/hosts). Try rebooting to see if everything comes up correctly...