Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:39:01 -0500 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bob_mcgregor <bob_mcgregor@gfps.k12.mt.us> Subject: Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why? Message-ID: <200806112233359.SM01608@TX2.Go2France.com> In-Reply-To: <48502FFD.3040900@gmail.com> References: <200802161041.08346.af300wsm@gmail.com> <7daacbbe0802171214t129d2945l8c035c15c242f95e@mail.gmail.com> <340a29540802191437m557b8e02w91fb96b3b4fe7aa8@mail.gmail.com> <20080611214815.SM01608@TX2.Go2France.com> <48502FFD.3040900@gmail.com>
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>>/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? I read this thread but missed that some pkg_add added network_interfaces in rc.conf, and left out "lo" thanks, Yuri Len
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