Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:11:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmailwoes) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909280950430.16779-100000@team7.cba.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEEDCCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote:
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:36:35 -0700
> From: Francis J. Bruening <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
> To: Just another Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu>
> Subject: RE: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more
sendmailwoes)
>
> Hello Joe,
>
> I think you're on to something...
>
> ifconfig -a
>
> shows my fxp0 interface active, but no lo0 device active...
>
> How do I configure my system to use a loopback system?
>
> thanks!
>
> Francis
>
You can edit /etc/rc.conf and add "lo0" as one of the network interfaces.
For more info read man rc.conf and man ifconfig
-Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Just another Joe [mailto:joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 7:19 AM
> To: Francis J. Bruening
> Cc: freebsd; cjclark@home.com
> Subject: Re: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more
> sendmailwoes)
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > sorry to flog this to death, but I think I'm getting closer to
> > solving the (*&%)%^*) sendmail problem. (oh the optimist in me ;)
> >
> > In trying to determine why sendmail won't talk w/ fetchmail, I've
> > done the following.
> >
> > ps aux | grep send -> sendmail is up and is "waiting for connections"
> >
> > echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjb@localhost
> > works, and I get the mail
> >
> > echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjbruening@home.com
> > works, and I get the mail at my ISP site
> >
> > /etc/hosts has the line "127.0.0.1 c583119-a.potlnd.or.home.com localhost"
> >
> > telnet localhost 25 -> this just hangs (it may time out after several
> > minutes, but I've always killed it.
> >
> > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 -> same as above
> >
> > ping 127.0.0.1 -> doesn't work, I get 100% packet loss.
> >
> > Should I not be able to ping myself? I can't understand what I've
> > screwed up to break sendmail so badly. It seems like sendmail to
> > send mail, but won't let me (or other processes, such as fetchmail)
> > talk to it...
> >
> > *argh*
> >
> > Francis
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com]
> > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:11 PM
> > To: Francis J. Bruening
> > Cc: freebsd
> > Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me?
> >
> >
> > Francis J. Bruening wrote,
> > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to debug a fetchmail problem, and I've come to the
> > > conclusion sendmail isn't healthy.
> > >
> > > The following command should work, but it doesn't.
> > >
> > > telnet localhost 25 # this times out
> > >
> > > yet, if I do the following, it works
> > >
> > > echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works
> > >
> > > so my question. Why won't sendmail "listen" to me? This causes
> > > a problem with fetchmail.
> > >
> > > I'm running a new install of 3.3.
> > >
> > > any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this are greatly
> appreciated.
> >
> > What does,
> >
> > % ps aux | grep sendmail
> >
> > Return? Is sendmail running? Is there an entry relevent to sendmail in
> > your rc.conf?
> >
> > % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > --
> > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
> Sounds like lo0 is not running. What does "ifconfig -a" report?
>
>
> -joe
>
>
>
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