[BUGS] local & outgoing mail / network oddities

[Jerahmy Pocott]

On 22/06/2008, at 10:03 PM, jonathan michaels wrote:

>>
>> 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.

I admit I'm a little stumped as to why a generic install would *lose*  
the loop back device..

Is there a device entry for lo0 in /dev/net/ ?

I don't fully understand how the devfs works, except that it  
'magically' puts device entries for everything that is in the system,  
since lo is in the kernel I can't see why it wouldn't put an entry..  
You can mess with /etc/devfs.conf, but the default file is all  
comments..

Are you running in a jail? *jokes* That's the only time I'v seen a  
system without lo..