From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 14:52:23 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5DC410656A8 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:52:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw5.njit.edu (mail-gw5.njit.edu [128.235.251.156]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C6C18FC1F for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.maestro (dhcp114-27.njit.edu [128.235.114.27]) by mail-gw5.njit.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o7JELtnE027810; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:21:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C6D3E04.5060009@wallnet.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:21:56 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100726 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kellers@njit.edu Subject: can't ping localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:52:23 -0000 I first noticed the problem when the machine stopped sending local mail; a typical entry: Aug 19 10:08:30 online sm-msp-queue[68533]: o7IKAhth008649: to=timothyk@xxx.njit.edu, ctladdr=timothyk (1001/1001), delay=17:57:47, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3360050, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Can't assign requested address Non-local mail still works: Aug 19 10:14:11 online sm-mta[68582]: o7JEEB8I068582: from=, size=593, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<4C6D3C2E.1060407@njit.edu>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=IPv4, relay=mail-xxx.njit.edu [128.235.251.157] Aug 19 10:14:11 online sm-mta[68584]: o7JEEB8I068582: to=, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30840, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent When I ping localhost: # ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address # uname -a FreeBSD xxx.njit.edu 7.3-STABLE FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #0: Tue Mar 30 14:35:56 EDT 2010 timothyk@xxx.njit.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MARCH31 i386 /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.conf, /etc/resolv.conf all look fine. I diffed them with another working 7.3-STABLE machine I have. I have built world and kernel to yesterday's 7.3-STABLE, but I haven't rebooted the machine. I'm thinking that if this is a hardware problem, once it goes down for a reboot, it may not come back up. I'm eagerly open to suggestions. Tim Kellers NJIT