IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

[Yuri Pankov]

Len Conrad wrote:
> 
> /etc/hosts :
> 
> ::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost
> 
> 
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf :
> 
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
> 
> ... but ifconfig always shows no inet:
> 
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> 
> 
> so we added to /etc/rc.conf :
> 
> ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0"
> 
> ... still not inet4 loopback if (so commented it out).
> 
> no errors in /var/log/messages,
> dmesg -a shows no error,
> ... other than services failing to grab ports on 127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> thanks
> Len

Do you have network_interfaces set to something different than "auto" in 
/etc/rc.conf?


Yuri