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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!mail2news.demon.co.uk!beckley.demon.co.uk!iwta From: Ian W Taylor <iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Pinging myself Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 19:16:12 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <808168572snz@beckley.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: iwta@beckley.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: beckley.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 Having just installed FreeBSD 2.0.5, I thought that I would check my installation before conecting to my ISP via PPP. I can 'ping localhost' successfully but any attempt to 'ping beckley' or 'ping beckley.demon.co.uk' gets no reply. Any idea what I am doing wrong ???? netstat -r gives ... Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire localhost localhost UH 0 129893 lo0 beckley localhost UGHS 0 15 lo0 and ifconfig -a gives lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 ppp0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 552 tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500