Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

 Hi.

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 12:09:59 -0400
John <JohnRChamplin@wowway.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the help and the link; it's useful.  But alas, nothing from it s=
> olved my problem.  I think next I'll try reinstalling stuff -- cups, hplip,=
>  anything else that comes to mind -- and see if I blunder into a fix.

Probably won't do you any good, since you have a basic kernel facility
(ip routing) in a broken state.


> Still, it would be nice to _understand_ ...

Can you please post the output of (run it all as root):

1) iptables-save

2) strace ping -c2 localhost

3) strace ping6 -c2 ip6-localhost

4) sysctl --system

5) ip ro l

6) ip -6 ro l


Reco