can't ping localhost

[Tim Kellers]

On 08/19/10 10:55, Glen Barber wrote:
> On 8/19/10 10:21 AM, Tim Kellers wrote:
>    
>> When I ping localhost:
>> # ping localhost
>> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
>> ping: sendto: Can't assign requested address
>>      
> Hi,
>
> Is the loopback interface (lo0) up?
>
> Regards,
>
>    

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128

Nope, it is not.  And I don't know how that can happen.


Thanks

Tim Kellers