cant ping external website

[NoOp]

On 09/25/2008 10:41 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>>> Well for starters never use 127.0.x.x for /anything/ other than the 
>>> loopback.  That's a bad idea.
>> 
>> isn't helpful. Particularly when Ubuntu uses 127.0.1.1 at installation
>> default.
>> 
> 
> Okay, taken out of context, it probably isn't helpful.  Point taken.
> 
>> 
>> In _Ubuntu_ removing and/or misconfiguring 127.0.1.1 can cause startup
>> delays and a multitude of other issues (including breaking
>> update-manager, gksu, password authentication etc - search launchpad etc
>> for details).
>> 
>> 
> 
> However, that fact that Ubuntu does something like that, that no other 
> OS (and unless I see a default Debian install do that, I'm not buying 
> it.) seems to do, then I think it's a misconfiguration.  In fact, at 
> lunch I pulled that line from my Mother's Hardy and rebooted it and it 
> came up just like it should.
> 
> So, obviously Ubuntu is doing something that a majority of other Linux 
> distros don't.  Why?  Who knows.  There's certainly no point in having a 
> /second/ loopback IP when the hostname can quite comfrotably sit on the 
> same line as 127.0.0.1 without any trouble at all.

Actually, I believe it was originally a Debian issue from 2004/05:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=267321

Added info:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316099
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/06/msg00938.html