Localhost route missing

[Jon Moss]

A couple of weeks ago, when I was having trouble with my web server, I
noticed that I don't have a localhost route:

]$ cat hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       lumcweb         localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.0.33    lumcweb.localdomain     lumcweb
192.168.0.25    MossLinux       MossLinux
24.94.162.101   smtpserver
]$ netstat -r
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt
Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth1
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U         0 0          0 eth1
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 eth1

Yet my hosts files includes it.  This server is running Fedora Core 2.

I can also ping the localhost just fine:

PING lumcweb (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from lumcweb (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms
64 bytes from lumcweb (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms
64 bytes from lumcweb (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.060 ms
64 bytes from lumcweb (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms

Should I be concerned?

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Thanks very much,

Jon Moss
jon.moss at cnonline.net