[BUGS] local & outgoing mail / network oddities

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 22/06/2008, at 1:17 PM, jonathan michaels wrote:

> hostname] /tmp/ot-build> ping localhost
> PING localhost.caamora.com.au (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: No route to host

That sounds bad..

I know you have probably checked all this, but what is the output from  
ifconfig?

Also what is in the /etc/hosts file? And what is set in /etc/ 
resolve.conf?

Not having a working loopback device would break a lot more than just  
sendmail..