From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 15 21:38:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8650216A425 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:38:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: from luke.segpub.com.au (luke.segpub.com.au [64.49.254.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CF243D46 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:38:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@redry.net) Received: (qmail 5752 invoked by uid 89); 16 Mar 2006 08:38:26 +1100 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 5547, pid: 5686, t: 2.1506s scanners: clamav: 0.87/m:34/d:1169 spam: 3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on luke.segpub.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.35?) (eoghan@redry.net@194.125.78.88) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Mar 2006 08:38:24 +1100 Message-ID: <44188949.2060402@redry.net> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:38:17 +0000 From: eoghan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Stevenson References: <4418442D.3090807@redry.net> <44187E8D.3070104@allenmyland.com> <4418804D.5010803@redry.net> <6.0.0.22.2.20060315151215.02816b58@mail.computinginnovations.com> <441886F0.9000602@redry.net> <4418880F.4030001@allenmyland.com> In-Reply-To: <4418880F.4030001@allenmyland.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Derek Ragona Subject: Re: hosts file X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 21:38:28 -0000 Ken Stevenson wrote: > eoghan wrote: >> Derek Ragona wrote: >> > Try manually adding the address, or uncomment that line and reboot. >> > >> > -Derek >> > >> >> Thanks, tried it and still no luck. Cant ping either localhost or >> 127.0.0.1. Perhaps i should post some details from my boot record, cos >> I do notice after the dhcp, there are network unreachable messages, >> but i cannot find where this boot log is stored... >> On a side not, these problems started when i began to use gnome >> (2.12.13). Maybe unrelated but i never had these problems using kde, >> and the boot message of network unreachable seem to have happened at >> this time too. > > Your NIC is not configured correctly. > > Can you post the the output of the ifconfig command. Also, there should > be a line in rc.conf that begins with ifconfig_... Post that line also. > Here is the complete output of ifconfig: nathaniel# ifconfig fwe0: flags=108943 mtu 1500 options=8 inet6 fe80::11:6ff:fe99:d9eb%fwe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 02:11:06:99:d9:eb ch 1 dma 0 xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 options=9 inet6 fe80::2b0:d0ff:fee7:e97d%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 192.168.1.34 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:b0:d0:e7:e9:7d media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8008 mtu 16384 nathaniel# and here is my full rc.conf: # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005 # Created: Fri Sep 30 17:48:53 2005 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. hostname="nathaniel" ifconfig_xl0="dhcp" ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" ipv6_enable="YES" linux_enable="YES" tomcat55_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" moused_type="auto" #moused_flags="-z 4" sshd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" inetd_enable="YES" sendmail_enable="NONE" # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Created: Sun Oct 16 15:29:40 2005 network_interfaces=xl0