From: Tim Themann (tim@Xerxes.hanse.de)
Date: 06/14/93 

From: tim@Xerxes.hanse.de (Tim Themann)
Subject: Re: NET-2 : loopback device problem !
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1993 09:41:12 GMT

: I've set up net-2 & pl10 & libc.4.4 successfully.
: everything seems fine except loopback device.
:
: I can telnet into my machine from other hosts without
: any problem,but I can seldom telnet or ftp via my
: loopback device.(failed 9 times of 10).
: I typied "telnet localhost" or "telnet 127.0.0.1"
: and it said :

localhost is just a loopback; if You woant to telnet to your machine, telnet
summer.
:
: 140.113.190.42 summer
: 140.113.190.0 network
: 140.113.190.254 router
: 127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
:
Usually, localhosts ip-addr is 127.0.0.0 --- look for this in /conf/net and
in /etc/rc.inet1!
It schould look like this:
@ IN SOA hanse.de. Xerxes.hanse.de. (
                  1 ; Serial
                  3600 ; Refresh
                  300 ; Retry
                  3600000 ; Expire
                  14400 ) ; Minimum
#router IN A 192.0.2.1
Xerxes IN A 192.0.2.64
loopback IN A 127.0.0.1
(Don't blame me for the network addr ;-) it's not online ;-)

Tim.