From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 07:50:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA07911 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA07878 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA15466; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:50:09 -0400 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:50 EDT Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.UUCP (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA00168 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 00:37:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA01427 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:44:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:44:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199608161444.KAA01427@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers Subject: Problem in 2.1.5 install and loopback interface. Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After a 2.1.5 install, you'll find in sysconfig a line to initialize the loopback interface: ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost" Well - if your using a nameserver, and the machine booting happens to *be* the nameserver, this won't work. Since named isn't up yet (how could it be before the interfaces are configured?), you can't resolve the name "localhost" This should probably change to: ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1" - Dave Rivers -