Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 22:40:42 -0400 From: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: loopback not working for anything other than 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <20010922224041.I24981@pir.net> In-Reply-To: <20010922191456.V27000-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 07:33:58PM -0700 References: <20010923020102.644233E36@CRWdog.demon.co.uk> <20010922191456.V27000-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
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Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> probably said: > 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<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> 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) and note that the only ipv4 address listed is '127.0.0.1'. > --- 127.0.0.2 ping statistics --- > 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss > it does not work like it should. Looks perfectly normal to me. What is "like it should" ? You don't have anything listening on the ip 127.0.0.2, why should anything answer ? P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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