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



On 2010-04-01 12:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
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.


Don't know about others, but I sure made a lot of stupid mistakes when I was green.

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"History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak
or the timid."  Dwight Eisenhower


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