[arch-general] Can't Connect to localhost/127.0.0.1 until I'm connected to a network

[Thomas Bohn]

On 2009-03-06 16:11 -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

>Ok, well... if you shut off your network AFTERWARDS, does it block
>your connection attempts too? Does /etc/hosts have "localhost" in
>there?

When I shutdown the connection it doesn't work, the loop interface stays 
the same all the way.

lo when connected:
---snip---
% ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:2167 (2.1 Kb)  TX bytes:2167 (2.1 Kb)
---snip---

when disconnected:
---snip---
% ifconfig lo
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
           RX bytes:2167 (2.1 Kb)  TX bytes:2167 (2.1 Kb)
---snip---

When I try to run ncmpcpp, when I'm disconnected:
---snip---
  % ncmpcpp
Cannot connect to mpd: host "localhost" not found: Temporary failure in name resolution
% ncmpcpp
Cannot connect to mpd: host "127.0.0.1" not found: Address family for hostname not supported
---snip---

It is just weird.

Thomas