lookback address when dialed up to isp

[profx]

I have a problem - which i wont go into but this is the cause:

When i can connected to a LAN the ethernet interface gets an ipaddress - as you would expect, i can ping my own ip address, which makes sense. But when connected to the internet via dialup i cant ping the modem interface.

This creates a problems when you try to connect to localhost in a java application, it wont even work with 127.0.0.1 (this beats me)

for those of you doubting me run this command in terminal while dialed up

ping -c 1 $(ifconfig ppp0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}')

it doesn't work!

anyone know of a solution?

 

[michaelsanford]

Look in Netinfo's /machines node for a node called localhost with ip address 127.0.0.1. If it's not there then that's the source of your problem.