We recently moved our mail server from a Solaris 2.7 server to a new
Solaris 2.8 server. We thought we had everything installed fine, but
our majordomo lists have slowed to a crawl. Everything seems the same,
except when doing ifconfig on the new 2.8 box we get:

/etc # ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index
1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ifconfig: socket: lo0: Address family not supported by protocol family

I've plumbed hme0 and tried to configure the interface, and have
created the /etc/hostname.hme0 file, but nohing shows up, just the
error above.

On the 2.7 box, we never saw "IPv4" in the flags.

How do I fis this?

Thanks,
Matt Zarbatany
AITG Inc.
mez@aitg-dot-com

Thanks for the reply, but this doesn't seem to be the problem. I only
have 2 services defined in inetd.conf on this server, imap and pop3,
and they're both set to "tcp". Would inetd.conf be involved when doing
a plain ifconfig -a to check the interfaces?

Thanks,
Matt

stuart_abrams_humphries@yahoo.com (stuart abrams-humphries) wrote in message news:<64aa62f7.0308202238.24006914@posting.google. com>...
> Hi Matt,
>
> Looks possibly like /etc/inetd.conf is using ipv6 but you want to use
> ipv4..check inetd.conf and see if proto has been set as tcp6 or udp6 -
> I think when you where upgrading the machine someone told it to use
> ipv6 whereas the addressing schem you're using is ipv4.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Stuart
>
> mez@aitg.com (Matt Zarbatany) wrote in message news:<5b6dee4c.0308201050.2a38578e@posting.google. com>...
> > We recently moved our mail server from a Solaris 2.7 server to a new
> > Solaris 2.8 server. We thought we had everything installed fine, but
> > our majordomo lists have slowed to a crawl. Everything seems the same,
> > except when doing ifconfig on the new 2.8 box we get:
> >
> > /etc # ifconfig -a
> > lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index
> > 1
> > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> > ifconfig: socket: lo0: Address family not supported by protocol family
> >
> > I've plumbed hme0 and tried to configure the interface, and have
> > created the /etc/hostname.hme0 file, but nohing shows up, just the
> > error above.
> >
> > On the 2.7 box, we never saw "IPv4" in the flags.
> >
> > How do I fis this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matt Zarbatany
> > AITG Inc.
> > mez@aitg-dot-com