binding on 127.0.0.1 not working after upgrade to 7.3

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:51:37PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick написав(ла):
> > Check ifconfig -a and make sure lo0 appears / has a correct IP address,
> > and the interface is up.
> >   
> You are right, it is not up:
> 
>     lo0: flags=8008<LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 
> Manually running `ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1' fixed the problem for the time
> being...
> 
> But why? What changed so significantly in the last few month, that lo0
> broke, of all things? :-)

It hasn't broken on any of the systems I maintain, including my own two
home servers.  If this problem was common/widespread, there'd be a lot
more reports of it coming in.

There is likely something else going on in your rc.conf or configuration
setup (possibly you botched a mergemaster merge?) which is causing the
problem.

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