>i later found out the next morning that ifconfig didn't have a local
>loopback interface, and the default 127.0.0.0 route was missing. eth0 was
>still up.
>
>could this be a kernel problem ? and how do i prevent this from recurring;
>because i know that there've been some cases where people mysteriously
>lose their local loopback.
I have yet to see a kernel problem that causes loss of the loopback
interface. More likely some config file got changed or corrupted and
as a result the system didn't start up lo anymore.
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