On 09/20/2007 02:14 PM, John O Laoi wrote:
[...] I also could not ping localhost or 127.0.0.1. So I removed the firewall using # update-rc.d -f firewall.script remove and rebooted. [...] *However, I still can't access CUPS or ping localhost.* What might be wrong? Where do I start to look? John
What do these commands do? ping -c 2 localhost ping -c 2 127.0.0.1 What is the output of this command? netstat -tunl What does this respond? /sbin/route -n Does your /etc/hosts properly set 'localhost' to 127.0.0.1 ?