[Nottingham] How to enable echo (for ping)

[Martin]

Martin wrote:
> OK folks, this must be a trivially simple question...
> 
> How do I enable echo on this box?
> 
> 
> ping works fine out to my ISP, but 'ping localhost' has 100% packet 
> loss. localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 ok, and iptables count the packets 
> on the ACCEPT rules ok.
> 
> So far I've tried:
> chkconfig echo on
> /etc/init.d/xinetd reload
> 
> and there seems to be no echo...
> 
> 
> (echo is supposed to be part of xinetd...?)
> 
> So what don't I know (apart from lots of various things)??


Further info:

/var/log/messages:
Jul 30 16:24:37 muse06 xinetd[13849]: Starting reconfiguration
Jul 30 16:24:37 muse06 xinetd[13849]: readjusting service echo-stream
Jul 30 16:24:37 muse06 xinetd[13849]: readjusting service echo-dgram
Jul 30 16:24:37 muse06 xinetd[13849]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=2 
dropped=0 (services)
Jul 30 16:24:37 muse06 xinetd: xinetd -USR2 succeeded


So what next to check?

Martin


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