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Subject: Re: binding on 127.0.0.1 not working after upgrade to 7.3
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Jeremy Chadwick ΞΑΠΙΣΑΧ(ΜΑ):
> Check ifconfig -a and make sure lo0 appears / has a correct IP address,
> and the interface is up.
>   
You are right, it is not up:

    lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384

Manually running `ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1' fixed the problem for the time
being...

But why? What changed so significantly in the last few month, that lo0
broke, of all things? :-)

Thanks!

    -mi