From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 19:33:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from warez.scriptkiddie.org (uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com [209.162.142.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD29437B411 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.69.11] (unknown [192.168.69.11]) by warez.scriptkiddie.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 761BB62D01 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:33:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20010923020102.644233E36@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: <20010922191456.V27000-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG All my 4.3 and 4.4 boxen have problems with the only lookback address being valid is 127.0.0.1 instead of the entire /8. My ifconfig looks like: lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 (note that this is the correct netmask) but when i try this: % ping 127.0.0.2 PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes ^C --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss it does not work like it should. (and i don't have any ipf filter rules on lo0 or anything of that nature) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message