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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Jeff <jasapp@facevalue.org>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: loopback interface 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:29:06 EST."
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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:29:06 EST, Jeff wrote:

> I had just finished up installing fetchmail, and I noticed that
> when it tried to hand it off to localhost it got an unreachable
> message. Sure enough, when I ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 my packets
> make it all the way to a router in Dallas.

Let's see the output of this command:

	ifconfig -a

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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