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From: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>
To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: can't ping localhost
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> I misconfigured my system somehow,
> so now I can't ping localhost:
>
> # ping localhost
> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ping: sendto: No route to host
> ^C

what is the output of uname -a ?

I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm


Sam Fourman Jr.
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