[BUGS] local & outgoing mail / network oddities

[jonathan michaels]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:28:47PM +1000, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:
> 
> 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..

even worse is that it is so simple aparently .. but i cannot
see a trace, cannot find  what is wrong
 
> I know you have probably checked all this, but what is the output from  
> ifconfig?

everything except teh lo entery, it has teh inet6 for localhost
but no inet 127.0.0.1 and i chececke teh other 4 and all have a
lo entry the only real difference was teh 2.2.5 host that has,
understandably, no inet6 entry .. grin.
 
> Also what is in the /etc/hosts file? And what is set in /etc/ 
> resolve.conf?

yep even interchange the physical files with others in teh
network and still teh same result .. undeliverable mail and no
localnetworking

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

other than ping, that i don't use every day (grin) sendmail
appears to be teh only thing thats broken. if checking these
things were able to fix this problem it would have been fixed
sometime ago .. i suppose teh real probl;em is that i do not
understand what is going on here and i thought i was coming up
to speed on this freebsd v6.2 beast .. perhaps, i am not ???
really is it that differnt to freebsd v2.2.5 ???

ok i'll admit my confidence is now eroding at a rapid clip ?

apologies/regards and much appreciations

jonathan

... wondering what nooks, crannies, small bolt holes are left

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