Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A.L.Meyers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some > details from doing > > networking restart > > in /etc/init.d/ : > > [...] > > How can I force apt-get to reinstall the original networking > configuration files in /etc ? Whi

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread Lou Losee
* A.L.Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-16 09:38]: > Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some > details from doing > > networking restart > > in /etc/init.d/ : > > wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart > Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolv

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-16 Thread A . L . Meyers
Thanks, Andreas. Alas the problem is still alive but here are some details from doing networking restart in /etc/init.d/ : wassern:/etc/init.d# ./networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces...ifconfig: can not resolve `down': Host name lookup failure cat: /var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid: No

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Lou Losee
I recently had something similar. It turned out to be that I had two versions of ifconfig installed. One was in /sbin/ifconfig, the other in /usr/bin/ifconfig. The 'correct' ifconfig was the one in /sbin/ifconfig. It seems that I had installed the inetutils-tools package which caused the bogus

Re: loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello A. L. Meyers (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, > I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only > failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback > interface lo is down, unreachable (ev

loopback interface down, sob ;-(

2003-12-14 Thread A. L. Meyers
Hi! After all the publicity about the breakins to the Debian servers, I decided to try to secure my systems better and, alas, not only failed in the process but trashed my network as well. The loopback interface lo is down, unreachable (even as root) and ping fails. Occasionally I get message