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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where did localhost go?
Date: 11 Sep 1996 20:45:12 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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Message-ID: <518108$36b@bofh.noc.best.net>
References: <517pep$lla@Mars.mcs.com>
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In article <517pep$lla@Mars.mcs.com>, Font <font@MCS.COM> wrote:
>~ $ ping 127.0.0.1
>PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>ping: sendto: Host is down
>ping: wrote 127.0.0.1 64 chars, ret=-1
>
>I'm pretty sure that this worked before I configured and tested user
>mode PPP. What should I look for in order to get this working again?
>I took a peek into /etc/sysconfig to see if anything got changed, but
>everything referring to localhost or lo0 is unchanged. Pinging the
>other machine in my network works fine, as does pinging the local
>machine by actual name in /etc/hosts (yes, localhost it in /etc/hosts).
>
>2.1.5R.
Did you try a "route get localhost" and "netstat -rn"? They should
return with info about it.
rone
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Ron Echeverri Best Internet News Administration rone@best.net