Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

A. L. Meyers (<me@privacy.net>) wrote:

> Hi!  After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers,
> I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only
> failed in the process but trashed my network as well.  The loopback
> interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails.
> Occasionally I get messages that only 1 address is allowed but I
> cannot find the right files to clean this up.  The problems arose
> after installing bastille, then removing it using
> 
> apt-get --purge remove bastille
> 
> Help much appreciated.

What does your /etc/network/interfaces say? It should look like this:

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Also, check if you have some packet filter like ipchains or iptables
started at boootup.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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