anybody else having loopback problems?

[Mike McGuire <mjm19@po.cwru.edu>]

yay unstable. a few days ago, I started having all kinds of problems 
with networking- fetchmail wouldn't fetch mail, samba not working, 
etc.- that I eventually tracked down to the loopback device not 
getting brought up on boot. did ifconfig and route for lo, and 
everything's fine for now. (have to put it in some init script...) 
the only explanation I can come up with is that some package got 
updated and broke something since I didn't do it. ;)  but I'm not 
sure, so I thought I'd ask if anybody else had/has the same problem.

Mike McGuire