Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:33:04 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange behavior Message-ID: <3640071546651C26E8EB9D6C@utd59514.utdallas.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060323000842.b44edde8.albi@scii.nl> References: <CCA563729BC34AE9B137458F@utd59514.utdallas.edu> <20060323000842.b44edde8.albi@scii.nl>
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--==========3C29DFE3673A69998B9C========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Thursday, March 23, 2006 00:08:42 +0100 albi <albi@scii.nl> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:39:21 -0600 > Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > >> What would cause this? >> >> 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 > --- cut --- >> ifconfig lo0 >> lo0: flags=3D8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 > You're right. After doing this: ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 up, it works fine. Wonder why it's not coming up=20 normally? /etc/default/rc.conf has it in there: ifconfig_lo0=3D"inet 127.0.0.1" # default loopback device configuration. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Adjunct Information Security Officer The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ --==========3C29DFE3673A69998B9C==========--
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