[TAG] localhost vanishes after rebooting

[Jpydeep Bakshi]

On Thursday 28 Apr 2005 12:25 am, Thomas Adam wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:38:06PM +0530, Jpydeep Bakshi wrote:
> > now * ping 127.0.0.1 * again started working but after
> > restarting the machine my localhost vanished and *ifconfig*
> > gave a blank output. have I done any mistake to configure the
> > loopback ? how can I solve the problem ? please suggest. thanks
>
> *you* probably *need* *to* /check/ *th/e/* file:
>
> /etc/network/interfaces

I have checked that file and get

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

should I change the first line as  ---> *auto lo 127.0.0.1*   ?



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