can't ping localhost help please

[indy317]

i can ping outside world, like yahoo.com but can't ping localhost or 127.0.0.1 . anyone help me please? thankz you

[homey]

In Redhat, check the file /etc/hosts . Check to see if you have and entry for localhost.localdomain like this.....


# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.2 multiscan.mydomain.com multiscan

[indy317]

i checked /etc/ hosts but still not ping . any other idea, thankz you

[homey]

Do you think maybe the firewall is blocking it? Check it with the command: iptables -L

[indy317]

thankz you very much. it works now