On 7/12/14, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > experience with Debian Wheezy is that lo "goes down" a lot, so this is > one of the first things I do when odd stuff happens. >
Use a better operating system then, I've used at work and home, suse, opensuse, rhel, centos, slackware and fedora, and never in my all my years of linux (I've used it since I was 14 and am mid twenties now) has loopback ever *gone away* unless i deliberately made it so.