FC4 won't ping 127.0.0.1 or the internet, but will ping local computers
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FC4 won't ping 127.0.0.1 or the internet, but will ping local computers
I'm running a server in my dorm room on Fedora Core 4, and all of a sudden it stopped being able to access the internet. I know that the port is ok, and I know that the network card works because I use it as a file server and everything seems to be fine that way. The problem is that I can't get to the internet at all. My laptop has no problems getting to the internet, and my server didn't when I got here initially.
To try and troubleshoot the issue, I decided that I would try to ping something, and so I started with my laptop which came back fine, but when I tried to ping 127.0.0.1, it would simply sit there forever. I can give some configuration settings if you want... any help would be greatly appreciated.
I just checked that, the firewall is disabled and not running, and the appropriate information is in my host file. I just found out something kind of interesting... I can ping 127.0.0.1 if I SSH into my server as root, yet when I'm running Konsole in KDE, I can't. I don't understand it.
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