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From: Vlad D. Nebolsin <vega@glas.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pinging myself
Message-ID: <APC&63'0'18d7dd0a'3f1@glas.apc.org>
References: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 14:15:49 +0400
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> /* ---------- "Pinging myself" ---------- */
> Having just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5, I thought that I would
> check my installation before conecting to my ISP via PPP.
>
> I can 'ping localhost' successfully but any attempt to
> 'ping beckley' or 'ping beckley.demon.co.uk' gets no
> reply.
[...]
> and ifconfig -a gives
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
^^^^^^^^^^
why 0xff000000 ? try 0xfffffff0 instead.
Vlad.