Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:01 -0500 From: Jon Radel <jon@radel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't ping localhost Message-ID: <4B985CB1.4060306@radel.com> In-Reply-To: <20100311024735.GS30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20100311022344.GP30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <11167f521003101834u15c8468bq3606b05b1788d967@mail.gmail.com> <20100311024735.GS30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms030404060802000909060508 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Well, the ping issue is just an example. > My real problem is that sendmail can't send > anything locally: > > # tail /var/log/maillog > Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0irgd029426: to=3D= mexas, ctladdr=3Dmexas (1001/1001), delay=3D01:32:05, xdelay=3D00:00:00, = mailer=3Drelay, pri=3D480031, relay=3D[127.0.0.1], dsn=3D4.0.0, stat=3DDe= ferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host Well, have you considered looking to see if it's right? What do you get = in response to: $ netstat -rn | grep 127 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 64746 lo0 $ Showing what I get on a 7.0 server. Unless they've moved things around since 7.0, you probably want to make=20 sure that you've not messed with the ifconfig_lo0 line in=20 /etc/defaults/rc.conf. My apologies if that config stuff has changed in the latest; I don't=20 have access to the latest right now. --=20 --Jon Radel jon@radel.com --------------ms030404060802000909060508--
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