Re: Holiday arrangements

[Richard Kimber <rkimber@ntlworld.com>]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:51:38 -0400
Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:


> I had a similar problem recently, and eventually traced it down to the 
> local loopback interface never being brought up.  Follow the directions 
> at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x540.html>[run 'ifconfig lo 
> 127.0.0.1; route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo' as root].  For a quick check to
> 
> see if this is the problem, run /sbin/ifconfig and see if it lists 'lo' 

Thanks. But it seems to be OK.  There must be something else.

- Richard.