Re: IPv4 loopback address is missing, why?

[Len Conrad]

/etc/hosts :
::1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.tld localhost
/etc/defaults/rc.conf :
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1"   # default loopback device configuration.
... but ifconfig always shows no inet:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128

so we added to /etc/rc.conf :
ifconfig_lo0="inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0"
... still not inet4 loopback if (so commented it out).
no errors in /var/log/messages,
dmesg -a shows no error,
... other than services failing to grab ports on 127.0.0.1

thanks
Len

Do you have network_interfaces set to something different than 
"auto" in /etc/rc.conf?

I read this thread but missed that some pkg_add added 
network_interfaces in rc.conf, and left out "lo"

thanks, Yuri

Len


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