Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:05:17 +0400 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why? Message-ID: <48502FFD.3040900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080611214815.SM01608@TX2.Go2France.com> References: <200802161041.08346.af300wsm@gmail.com> <7daacbbe0802171214t129d2945l8c035c15c242f95e@mail.gmail.com> <340a29540802191437m557b8e02w91fb96b3b4fe7aa8@mail.gmail.com> <20080611214815.SM01608@TX2.Go2France.com>
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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
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