From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 8:11:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5D93155D7 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16829; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:11:24 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:11:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe To: "Francis J. Bruening" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmailwoes) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote: > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 07:36:35 -0700 > From: Francis J. Bruening > To: Just another Joe > 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 > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > Sounds like lo0 is not running. What does "ifconfig -a" report? > > > -joe > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message