On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:20:20PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > After rebooting, I found unfixable errors on a FAT partition, but no > problems with the e2fs ones. However, now certain functions don't > work correctly. Notably: > > -innxmit can't connect to innd, although innd is running > > -fetchmail can connect to external POP servers, but after > downloading a few bytes, it freezes and eventually times > out > > -Local browsers can't connect to my local web proxy > (wwwoffle) > > Oddly, although telnet (ssh) to a particular machine works, > connections to that same machine with fetchmail fail. > > What could cause this?
One thing to check: is the loopback interface configured? /sbin/ifconfig should show an entry for "lo", the Local Loopback with address 127.0.0.1. Since you seem to be able to connect fine remotely but not to the local host, this is a good thing to check. There was a problem a while back with netbase in potato/woody creating a /etc/network/interfaces file with the localhost line commented out (i don't know if that has been fixed yet), you may want to look into that. -- finger for GPG public key.
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