Re: Fetchmail problem

["Matt" <Eagle@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>try running these commands as root:
>
>ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
>route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo
>
>But, those should really be there already. hmm.. try running a traceroute
>to localhost, and send me the results of that, as well as what the 'route'
>command by itself prints out.


Ok, I ran these, and here's what I got.

--------
root (/)# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
root (/)# route add -net 127.0.0.0 dev lo
root (/)# traceroute localhost
traceroute to localhost (127.0.0.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1  localhost (127.0.0.1)  0.242 ms  0.141 ms  0.116 ms
root (/)# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
aumi1-l0.ccm.td *               255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        3 lo
default         aumi1-l0.ccm.td 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        1
ppp0
root (/)# ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
          RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:204.246.4.166  P-t-P:204.246.4.161  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

root (/)#
--------
As you can see the "ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1", and "route add -net 127.0.0.0
dev lo" did not work.

The route command results are a little messed up here, but I think you can
understand them ok.   I checked out the FAQ for fetchmail, and it had the
error that I am having sited in it.  They told me to telnet to localhost and
see if that works, it doesn't.   I'm guessing that I have a network setting
wrong in my setup, and I'm going to keep playing with it.

-Matt Crampton
 Eagle@Mail.Tds.Net