Further investigation shows that web connections work fine. What
isn't working is Privoxy, which fails to start up with the message
Fatal error: can't bind to 127.0.0.1:8118: because Cannot assign
requested address
What seems to be happening is that lo isn't working. "ifconfig lo"
reports:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:98972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:98972 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:122340835 (116.6 MiB) TX bytes:122340835 (116.6 MiB)
However, attempts to ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 time out. I think
lo failing would explain both fetchmail and privoxy failing.
However, I don't know why lo would fail ... wait. "inet6 addr"? Is
lo listening only to IPv6?
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