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Ok, here's the problem.
I cannot ping the localhost until I issue the command 'ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1'. I may be wrong, but doesn't Linux take care of this whenever it boots? (I just noticed the problem following the installation of the CUPS interface so it must have been messed-up for a while.) I've searched the Web from front to back and have yet to know what the problem might be.
Oh yeah, please be easy on the networking jargon...networking is not my 'thing'.
Thanks!! Dennis
If your on a RedHat or a distro with equivalent files then edit
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
and make sure there is a line that says ONBOOT=yes
If you don't have a file like this then put a ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 in rc.local
Hi, thanks for your help. Still no progress though. The file already had the ONBOOT="yes" option. I've played around with a few commands and have also discovered that a stop/start of the network service gets localhost available (/etc/rc.d/init.d/network [stop/start]). Here's the contents of ifcfg-io file:
DEVICE="lo"
IPADDR="127.0.0.1"
NETMASK="255.0.0.0"
NETWORK=127.0.0.0
# If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian,
# you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example)
BROADCAST=127.255.255.255
ONBOOT="yes"
NAME=loopback
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
Well, I think I found a solution to the problem. As suggested, I placed a command in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file with the following
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
I'm not particularly happy with using this solution since I believe that there is a better way (does anyone else use this in their boot file?) but it's working.
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since I believe that there is a better way (does anyone else use this in their boot file?) but it's working.
