On Wed, 02 May 2012 18:05:56 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo ifconfig lo
[sudo] password for tony:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:116280
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:116280
errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB) TX bytes:21992844 (20.9 MiB)
Then Exim is right but, how that can be? :-?
sm01@stt008:~$ /sbin/ifconfig lo
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 B) TX bytes:560 (560.0 B)
Check you "/etc/hosts" file. You should have this line which enables the
ipv6 loopback interface:
***
::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
***