On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 10:35:53PM -0500, Harold Bibik wrote something like this:
> > > last week I did a fresh install of Woody > on a single machine, single user desktop that has a dialup > connect to the net. > > I have not been able to connect to localhost for some reason > > I've tried apache and dhttpd and trying to http://localhost > to either port 80 or 631 gives me a connection refused error > > if I try to telnet in I get: > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host > > even trying to use lpadmin gives a > lpadmin: Unable to connect to server: No route to host > > exim runs fine, fetchmail is ok, procmail is good. actually everything > else is working as expected This was sent to me off the list but I wanted to post it so it might help someone else in the future: _____________________ After a new woody installation a few months ago, I was unable to connect to localhost, but my ppp and mail services worked fine. After frustrating searches, I found this to be caused by a "loopback" problem. Check /etc/network/interfaces and see if it looks like: # Used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8). See the interfaces(5) manpage or # /usr/share/doc/ifupdown/examples for more information. auto lo iface lo inet loopback If not, maybe that's the problem. ___________________________ that was the fix, adding those two lines to etc/network/interfaces did the trick THANK YOU Tomaz -- Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. - Anti-smoking spokesperson Brooke Shields =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Harold Bibik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
