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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Telnet Loopback device
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 07:54:26 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- albion@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Craig T Manske) writes:
-
- >I am having trouble using the loopback device to telnet back to my machine.
- >Whenever I do a telnet 127.0.0.1 1111, I get a network unreachable error.
- >I have gone through the Networking FAQ and it has solved some other problems
- >I was having, but I seem to be stuck now. I know it's probabally one
- >of the named files, but am not sure which one is incorrect. Any ideas?
-
- >Albion
-
- 1.) Do you have anything listening to port 1111? It will give you errors
- if you try to connect to a port that isn't there.
-
- 2.) Is /usr/etc/inet/hosts set up correctly for your machine? Mine looks
- like this:
-
- 129.130.4.12 quix quix.ksu.edu # I just assigned mine, since I can't connect
- # to the outside world with it anyways.
- 127.0.0.1 loopback
- 127.0.0.1 me
-
- 3.) Do you run config in rc.net to include the loopback device? It needs to be
- run twice like this:
-
- config loopback $IPADDR # Whatever your ip address is
- config loopback 127.0.0.1 # To assign the loopback device to 127.0.0.1
-
- James
-