From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 16:19:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA8051065679 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from mail-gw6.njit.edu (mail.njit.edu [128.235.251.157]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711BE8FC1E for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from beta.maestro (dhcp114-27.njit.edu [128.235.114.27]) by mail-gw6.njit.edu (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o7JGJVFX013272; Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:19:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C6D5994.8030708@wallnet.com> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:19:32 -0400 From: Tim Kellers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100726 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mikel king References: <4C6D3E04.5060009@wallnet.com> <4C6D479E.9010706@infracaninophile.co.uk> <4C6D49F1.5040909@njit.edu> <171315B0-DDBC-4E55-9E34-5EFE05081045@olivent.com> In-Reply-To: <171315B0-DDBC-4E55-9E34-5EFE05081045@olivent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "questions@freebsd.org" , Tim Kellers Subject: Re: can't ping localhost X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 16:19:40 -0000 On 08/19/10 11:51, mikel king wrote: > Your lo0 only has inet6 addresses, perhaps try binding a v4 address? > > Cheers, > m! > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 11:12, Tim Kellers wrote: > > >> On 08/19/10 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >>> On 19/08/2010 15:21, Tim Kellers wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I'm eagerly open to suggestions. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> What does 'ifconfig lo0' say? >>> >>> What does 'sockstat | grep :25' say? >>> >>> What does 'ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/' say? >>> >>> What does 'mount | grep /usr' say? >>> >>> It sounds as if either: >>> >>> * Your loopback interface has lost address 127.0.0.1 >>> >>> or: >>> >>> * Some process other than a live sendmail instance has bound to port >>> 25 on the loopback. >>> >>> or: >>> >>> * sendmail has somehow lost its setgid-ness >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Matthew >>> >>> >>> >> # ifconfig lo0 >> lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 >> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 >> >> (lo0 looks unconfigured to me) >> >> # sockstat | grep :25 >> root sendmail 7371 3 tcp4 *:25 *:* >> root sendmail 7371 5 tcp6 *:25 *:* >> >> (that looks fine to me) >> >> # ls -la /usr/libexec/sendmail/ >> total 676 >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 30 21:03 . >> drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1536 Mar 30 21:03 .. >> -r-xr-sr-x 1 root smmsp 669788 Mar 30 21:03 sendmail >> >> (looks OK to me, too) >> >> # mount | grep /usr >> /dev/aacd0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) >> >> (Looks normal to me, too) >> >> Thanks >> >> Tim Kellers >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > Thanks, Once I saw that lo0 was not configured for ipv4, I did a: #ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 and local mail resolved and was delivered and I can now ping localhost. I just have to wonder how in heck it got that way. Thanks all Tim Kellers