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Re: hmm is this a newbie's qeustion ;P



On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Guy Cohen wrote:

> Hello all.
> hope your pass the kipoor fine.
> see i have this problem ...
> can't telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.1...

is your loopback device defined?

[ira@off ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

[ira@off ~]$ /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination   Gateway        Genmask         Flags Metric Ref  Use Iface
204.141.46.65  *             255.255.255.255 UH    0      0      0 dlci00
204.141.46.128 *             255.255.255.248 U     0      0      2 eth0
127.0.0.0      *             255.0.0.0       U     0      0      1 lo
default        204.141.46.65 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0      7 dlci00

(the lo entry in the kernel routing table should like the third line in
the above table)

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