Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A.L.Meyers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some > details from doing > > networking restart > > in /etc/init.d/ : > > [...] > > How can I force apt-get to reinstall the original networking > configuration files in /etc ? Whi

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Lou Losee
* A.L.Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 09:38]: > Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some > details from doing > > networking restart > > in /etc/init.d/ : > > wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart > Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolv

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Lou Losee
I recently had something similar. It turned out to be that I had two versions of ifconfig installed. One was in /sbin/ifconfig, the other in /usr/bin/ifconfig. The 'correct' ifconfig was the one in /sbin/ifconfig. It seems that I had installed the inetutils-tools package which caused the bogus

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A. L. Meyers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, > I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only > failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback > interface lo is down, unreachable (ev