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Path: sserve!euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!news.moneng.mei.com!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!demos!news.glas.apc.org!glas!vega 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 X-Gateway: notes@glas.apc.org Lines: 17 > /* ---------- "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.