ifconfig lo
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb) TX bytes:2402682 (2.2 Mb)
On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 20:23:30 -0600, Micheal <sundance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 20:17, Shawn Kovalchick wrote:
>
>
> > I'm trying to set up a postgresql server on FC2, and it seems that the server
> > is unable to look up 127.0.0.1. Further investigation shows that dig
> > is unable to return anything for localhost or a reverse lookup for
> > 127.0.0.1. /etc/hosts has an entry for 127.0.0.1 pointing to
> > localhost and localhost.localdomain. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Relevant sections of configuration files follow:
> >
> > /etc/nsswitch.conf contains this line:
> > hosts: files dns
> >
> > /etc/hosts contains:
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
> >
> > I apologize if this has been double posted, it appears that the
> > initial post didn't take, as I was not yet signed up on the list.
>
> What does the out put of
>
> /sbin/ifconfig lo
>
> give?
>
> MC
>
>
