Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Wayne
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 1 April 2010 20:40, Wayne wrote: When the servers are back up install the 'debian-reference' package. Read it. Â It has a section on networking - read it. Â You would not have started this if you had done this. Most if not all problems can be solved by reading through th

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 1 April 2010 20:40, Wayne wrote: > When the servers are back up install the 'debian-reference' package. > > Read it.  It has a section on networking - read it.  You would not have > started this if you had done this. > > Most if not all problems can be solved by reading through that manual. >

Re: Re (2): 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Wayne
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Wayne, From: Wayne Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:40:50 -0400 install the 'debian-reference' package. Read it. Can't the instructions be read on a Web page? Don't know, I never looked on the web for it. Just install the package along with the dwww package and you c

Re (2): 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread peasthope
Wayne, From: Wayne Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:40:50 -0400 > install the 'debian-reference' package. > > Read it. Can't the instructions be read on a Web page? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Google "pathology workshop". In ETHNO click here -> Desktops.OpenDoc "http://carnot.yi.org";. --

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Wayne
Dotan Cohen wrote: Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. I'd wonder why there wasn't a lo in the first place... I broke it trying to force the computer to take a specific IP address. One of those issues that I decided to learn by doing, rather than bugging the list about. On

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-01 12:24, Dotan Cohen wrote: Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. I'd wonder why there wasn't a lo in the first place... I broke it trying to force the computer to take a specific IP address. One of those issues that I decided to learn by doing, rather than buggi

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Wayne
Dotan Cohen wrote: Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. You are a genius! Well now we know at what level we have to start at when Dotan has a problem. I never claimed not to be slow! Actually, I don't know if that was meant to offend, but I am not offended. It was not me

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. > > I'd wonder why there wasn't a lo in the first place... > I broke it trying to force the computer to take a specific IP address. One of those issues that I decided to learn by doing, rather than bugging the list about. Only when I got s

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. You are a genius! > > Well now we know at what level we have to start at when Dotan has a problem. > I never claimed not to be slow! Actually, I don't know if that was meant to offend, but I am not offended. I learn a lot from this list. G

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-01 11:20, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there actually a "lo"? Presumably that non-Debian machine is running Network Mangler. Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. I'd wonder why there wasn't a lo in the first place...

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Wayne
Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there actually a "lo"? Â Presumably that non-Debian machine is running Network Mangler. Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. You are a genius! Well now we know at what level we have to start at when Dotan has a problem. Google didn't help with that

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Is there actually a "lo"?  Presumably that non-Debian machine is running > Network Mangler. > Adding lo to /etc/network/interfaces fixed the problem. You are a genius! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Is there actually a "lo"?  Presumably that non-Debian machine is running > Network Mangler. > Thank you Ron! That was it! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: 127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-04-01 11:03, Dotan Cohen wrote: One problematic machine running a Debian-based distro (ubuntu 9.10) will answer to pings from other computers, but will not answer to pings on 127.0.0.1 from itself. Likewise, it will not answer to pings to localhost nor to its own IP address (pings to it's

127.0.0.1 not answering to ping, yet other computer can ping me.

2010-04-01 Thread Dotan Cohen
One problematic machine running a Debian-based distro (ubuntu 9.10) will answer to pings from other computers, but will not answer to pings on 127.0.0.1 from itself. Likewise, it will not answer to pings to localhost nor to its own IP address (pings to it's own IP address are answered if I try from