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From: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
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In-reply-to: <199605081723.KAA24704@freefall.freebsd.org> (message from Jose Luis Scanferlato on Wed, 8 May 1996 19:25:31 +0200)
Subject: Re: loopback interface (can't play xpilot)
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>>>>> Jose Luis Scanferlato <jls@acm.org> writes:
> 
> Hello,
> I have some problem with the xpilot game. After some debugging it comes out
> that "the loopback interface is not running". In fact, ifconfig reports:
> 
>    lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST>

Does 'ping localhost' work? If not, then you'll need to check how
you've configured some of the files in /etc (hosts, sysconfig,
possibly host.conf and resolv.conf)