Bug#557443: iceweasel does not work with privoxy as proxy

[e.waelde]

Hello,
I had the same problem.

I came across this
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1144892

Checking whether everything is up:
# lsof -P -n -i:9050
COMMAND  PID       USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
tor     2498 debian-tor    7u  IPv4  15995      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:9050 (LISTEN)
# lsof -P -n -i:8118
COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
privoxy 2775 privoxy    1u  IPv6  17296      0t0  TCP [::1]:8118 (LISTEN)
--this look suspicious------^^^^


So I changed /etc/hosts, since "localhost" shows up twice:

-::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
+::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

restarted privoxy

# lsof -P -n -i:8118
COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
privoxy 2872 privoxy    1u  IPv4  18523      0t0  TCP 127.0.0.1:8118 (LISTEN)

and everything works!!!



I'm not sure, what is the correct way to fix this.

Cheers,
Erich