Security Reminder
Local does a pretty good job of scrubbing private info from the logs and the errors it produces, however there’s always the possibility that something private can come through. Because these are public forums, always review the screenshots you are sharing to make sure there isn’t private info like passwords being displayed.
We have a Windows Troubleshooting guide below that goes over some common items worth checking. For example, make sure you’re running Local as an admin user, that you don’t have any security blockers, and that Local has access to update your Hosts file.
I have been using local for about 2 years now. It has worked fine with tunneling on numerous occasions. It’s just intermittent issues depending on which site I view and this was the last straw. If cant be user or security permissions when it works on one site and not another. How could it update hosts file for one site and not another? Is security a minute by minute proposition? One minute it is allowed, the next minute it is not? Doesn’t sound logical to me.
Thanks for all of that context and detail @sjw9999 - I was just going off of your original post since I couldn’t have known all of that.
Does the issue persist if you try a different browser other than you default one? Sometimes an outdated browser, or browser extensions can get in the way.
Do you utilize a VPN or office network? Or have the ability to change networks? There could be filtering or throttling that is impeding testing.
Here are some other Windows tips I found for this: