On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:58, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> I've a simple question, not really AMD64 specific: why net.lo does not
> provide "net"?
because net.lo is not usefull for a system that provides services.
for example running a ssh server for net.lo is kinda silly :)

> I'm asking this because last week at home I couldn't run apache2
> because I didn't have an interface up but lo. But this is silly,
> because I could still use apache2 locally!
> Am I wrong? Is my system wrong?
Your system is correct, if you don't care for this you can change the 
behaviour in /etc/conf.d/rc with the RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING variable
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