I have seen this when iptables is running and pings are not permissioned. On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > Hi all, > I have a server running 2.6.2-rc1, and I was happily installing > vpopmail and reading the vpopmail gentoo guide (www.gentoo.org). Somehow > (don't ask me > why) every net connections seem to stop and get blocked. Now I cannot > make any socket connection. For example: > > # ping localhost > PING descartes.geniousdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted > ... > > Any ideas on how to unblock the situation? > > Cheers, > -- > > Paulo J. Matos : pocm [_at_] mega . ist . utl . pt > Instituto Superior Tecnico - Lisbon > Computer and Software Eng. - A.I. > - > http://mega.ist.utl.pt/~pocm > --- > -> God had a deadline... > So, he wrote it all in Lisp! > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
