Control: severity -1 important On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 10:04:13PM +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote: > root@cucamonga:~# ping 127.0.0.1 > ping: socket: Address family not supported by protocol (raw socket required > by specified options). > > I actually can't ping anything at all, it all fails with the above > error message. > > I wouldn't be stunned to learn this is because I have no ipv6 > connectivity and no ipv6 support in my kernel, but I don't think > that makes this behavior anymore OK.
I cannot reproduce this on a host with no ipv6 connectivity. Does 'ping -4 127.0.0.1' work any differently? By "no ipv6 support", do you mean you're running a custom kernel with a different configuration than provided by Debian? noah
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