On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 21:51 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
Attempting to log in to Google account. Process hangs for some
minutes,
then complains that it can't access 127.0.0.1.8888. Any idea what's
going on? (Fedora 35, reasonably current)
As to your question in the subject line:
127.0.0.1 is every device's way to refer to itself. It's the
equivalent of you referring to yourself as "me."
8888 is port eighty-eight thousand and eighty-eight, which has no
defined standard use anywhere. In other words, it's free for anything
to use it for whatever they want to, there's no exclusive purpose
assigned for it.
In essence you're trying to connect to yourself. Or, the error message
could be coming from Google, and it's having some failure in trying to
connect to something within itself.
Essentially, you can't connect to anything else at that address but
yourself. But you could be going through something at that address to
something else. That thing you're going through could be a webproxy, a
virtual private network (a VPN), a virtual machine, possibly some
others I can't think of at the moment.
We haven't really got enough information about your system to narrow
things down beyond just tossing ideas in your direction.
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