Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

To: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.
From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:24:00 +0300
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>> Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem.
>
> I'd wonder why there wasn't a lo in the first place...
>

I broke it trying to force the computer to take a specific IP address.
One of those issues that I decided to learn by doing, rather than
bugging the list about. Only when I got seriously stuck did I waste
the list bandwidth, and even then only with a very specific question.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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