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Date:      Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:03:56 +0000
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Jon Radel <jon@radel.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: can't ping localhost
Message-ID:  <20100311030356.GT30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4B985CB1.4060306@radel.com>
References:  <20100311022344.GP30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <11167f521003101834u15c8468bq3606b05b1788d967@mail.gmail.com> <20100311024735.GS30257@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <4B985CB1.4060306@radel.com>

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On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:00:01PM -0500, Jon Radel wrote:
> 
> > 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=mexas, ctladdr=mexas (1001/1001), delay=01:32:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=480031, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [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 
> sure that you've not messed with the ifconfig_lo0 line in 
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> 
> My apologies if that config stuff has changed in the latest; I don't 
> have access to the latest right now.

# netstat -rn|grep 127
127.0.0.1          link#2             UH          0        0    lo0


thank you
anton

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Anton Shterenlikht
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