can't ping localhost

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:34:08PM -0600, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> > I misconfigured my system somehow,
> > so now I can't ping localhost:
> >
> > # ping localhost
> > PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: No route to host
> > ping: sendto: No route to host
> > ^C
> 
> what is the output of uname -a ?

# uname -a
FreeBSD mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Mar  9 14:35:40 GMT 2010     mexas at mech-anton240.men.bris.ac.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QOF  sparc64


> I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm
> 

all my machines are current, but some are more current than others..

Well, the ping issue is just an example.
My real problem is that sendmail can't send
anything locally:

# tail /var/log/maillog
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0irgd029426: to=mexas, ctladdr=mexas (1001/1001), delay=01:32:05, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=480031, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2B0hbGe029358: to=mexas, ctladdr=mexas (1001/1001), delay=01:33:21, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=570028, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A87g4K005078: to=root, delay=18:09:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3721559, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A87g4L005078: to=root, delay=18:09:16, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3725184, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A77d4L004977: to=root, delay=19:09:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3903061, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A77d4K004977: to=root, delay=19:09:19, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=3903122, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A3bvPl004242: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=22:39:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4530195, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A3c9wG004609: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=22:38:49, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4533820, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A340iF002543: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:12:58, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4711758, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
Mar 11 02:16:58 mech-anton240 sm-msp-queue[32611]: o2A33vXB002495: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=23:13:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=4801697, relay=[127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: [127.0.0.1]: No route to host
# 


many thanks
anton

> 
> Sam Fourman Jr.
> Fourman Networks

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