From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 22 19:47:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from warez.scriptkiddie.org (uswest-dsl-142-38.cortland.com [209.162.142.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 245C537B42A for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:47:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.69.11] (unknown [192.168.69.11]) by warez.scriptkiddie.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06C562D01 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:47:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20010922191456.V27000-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Message-ID: <20010922194706.G27000-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As people have already started pointing out to me in e-mail, this is correct behavior if you haven't defined any ip aliases. Now that I sit down and think about it, it does make perfect sense. On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Lamont Granquist wrote: > All my 4.3 and 4.4 boxen have problems with the only lookback address > being valid is 127.0.0.1 instead of the entire /8. > > My ifconfig looks like: > > lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > > (note that this is the correct netmask) > > but when i try this: > > % ping 127.0.0.2 > PING 127.0.0.2 (127.0.0.2): 56 data bytes > ^C > --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > > it does not work like it should. > > (and i don't have any ipf filter rules on lo0 or anything of that nature) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message