Re: cannot ping my own machine

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (02/11/06 05:09), schmity wrote:
> Newbie Here.  The name of my linux machine is "linuxbox".  I am unable
> to ping this machine from that very machine.  I tried the following:
> 
> ping linuxbox
> and
> ping localhost
> 
> neither of which worked.

What is the output of

$ cat /etc/hosts

it should look something like this:
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       linuxbox.<domain>       linuxbox

and (as root)

# ifconfig

Regards

Clive

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