On Monday 25 Aug 2003 9:49 pm, Dick Gevers wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:58:31 +0100, Anne Wilson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about Re: [expert] Cannot reach host localhost: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >> > I had to reboot this morning - there were 131 mails waiting > >> > for me at Tiscali, and I could not get them. I'm sure a > >> > 'service restart' was what was needed, but what service? > > > > The moment I rebooted I could collect the mail > >as normal. It has to be something here that has its knickers in a > >twist. > > Perhaps the same thing as what used to happen to me a long time > ago: if you disconnect your modem or ethernet cable your firewall > (prelude?) and/or iptables and/or shorewall will go to sleep, e.g. > service prelude status could show `prelude dead but prelude-report > running`. If that is the case you won`t be able to connect. > > I solved it by setting up a set of sudo commands, such as ifup > eth0, ifdown eth0, service prelude stop, service prelude start, > service iptables stop, service iptables start and made aliases for > commands to combine them into one command only. Never had the > problem again. > > HTH. > Regards, > =Dick Gevers=
Hi, Dick. My firewall is black box, on the router. I had already rebooted the router, so it wasn't the problem. I don't know what is running here that could have caused it. It's no big deal, but I hate to be pushed into a re-boot <g> Anne
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