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Subject: Re: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) 
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If memory serves me right, Just another Joe wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote:

[3.3-RELEASE, can't ping or telnet to 127.0.0.1]

> Sounds like lo0 is not running. What does "ifconfig -a" report? 

If that is the case, it is a manifestation of a problem documented in
the 3.3-RELEASE errata:

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.3R/errata.html

Cheers,

Bruce.

PS.  Minor nitpick:  It's a good idea to trim down the quoted parts of
messages you reply to...I had to scroll through several screenfuls of
quoted text to find a one-line reply.  :-p



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