Can't run local server when offline or tethering with iPhone

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Hi! For some reason my local server won’t start when I’m without wifi or when I’m tethering with my Iphone for internet connection.

I run a start script in my IDE (Webstorm), using npm/webpack:

    "start": "run-p start:**",
    "start:hugo": "hugo -d ../dist -s site -vw",
    "start:webpack": "webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js",

Hugo seems to build, but the live server won’t start:

events.js:183
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND localhost
    at GetAddrInfoReqWrap.onlookup [as oncomplete] (dns.js:67:26)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! victor-hugo@1.0.0 start:webpack: `webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the victor-hugo@1.0.0 start:webpack script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Martin/.npm/_logs/2019-03-03T16_29_56_804Z-debug.log
Total in 1284 ms
ERROR: "start:webpack" exited with 1.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! victor-hugo@1.0.0 start: `run-p start:**`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the victor-hugo@1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Martin/.npm/_logs/2019-03-03T16_29_56_885Z-debug.log

Here’s from the log file:

20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error victor-hugo@1.0.0 start:webpack: `webpack-dev-server --config webpack.dev.js`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the victor-hugo@1.0.0 start:webpack script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

My two questions:

  1. Does anyone know why this is happening and what I can do?
  2. Is there another way to work locally?

I prefer not push every little change to github and wait for Netlify to build to be able to see changes I’ve made.

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This looks like an error with npm, not hugo.

You can verify this by running:

hugo server -d ../dist -s site -vw
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That seems to be the case. Hugo server seems to be running, but since I’m depending on webpack site looks weird.

I read in a npm forum that running npm config get https-proxy and npm config get proxy should provide some answer. I get “null” and am not the wiser…

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You were right. The problem was in my hosts file – somehow it was altered.