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

[Geir Erikstad]

>> 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
>

Can you connect to ::1 when you are disconnected?

Maybe you are using ipv6 for some reason while disconnected.

-geirr