On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Thomas Bohn <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009-03-06 16:04 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote: > >> The lo interface is brought up by rc.sysinit right after it processes >> udev events. Do you, by chance, still have "lo" in your rc.conf >> INTERFACES array? > > No, my INTERFACES array looks like this: > > INTERFACES=() > > It is empty and commented Ok, well... if you shut off your network AFTERWARDS, does it block your connection attempts too? Does /etc/hosts have "localhost" in there? At each step of the process, try running "ifconfig lo" to check what's going on with lo at that point.
