From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 10:46:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24427 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24419 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 10:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA26052; Thu, 18 Apr 96 17:46:20 GMT Message-Id: <9604181746.AA26052@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA218369689; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:48:09 -0600 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 11:48:09 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: dyeske@pigseye.kennesaw.edu Cc: questions@freebsd.org, support@cdrom.com In-Reply-To: (message from David Paul Yeske on Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:23:29 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: localhost Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "David" == David Paul Yeske writes: David> I screwed something up and I can't telnet to localhost, its David> in my /etc/hosts file and I have loopback compiled into the David> kernel? What do I need to fix? Make sure you have a static route to your loopback interface. Easy way to do that: edit /etc/sysconfig. Make sure ``loopback'' appears in ``static_routes'' static_routes="loopback" Make sure there's a ``route_loopback'' line: route_loopback="${hostname} localhost" Make sure ``hostname'' is set as well in /etc/sysconfig. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/