[BUGS] local & outgoing mail / network oddities

[Jan Mikkelsen]

Hi Jonathan,

(I still owe you a response to your last email.  I'm on an all-consuming
project ...)

My guess is that you are blocking local traffic using one of pf/ipf/ipfw.
Recent changes?

Regards,

Jan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bugs-bounces at bugs.au.freebsd.org 
> [mailto:bugs-bounces at bugs.au.freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> jonathan michaels
> Sent: Sunday, 22 June 2008 10:04 PM
> To: BUGS - Generic chat
> Subject: Re: [BUGS] local & outgoing mail / network oddities
> 
> 
> 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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