Strange behavior

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Wed Mar 22 23:33:23 UTC 2006


--On Thursday, March 23, 2006 00:08:42 +0100 albi <albi at scii.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:39:21 -0600
> Paul Schmehl <pauls at 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=8049<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 
normally?  /etc/default/rc.conf has it in there:
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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