ping issue

["David E. Fox" <dfox belvdere vip best com>]

Folks:

I'm running (mostly) redhat-6.0, and 'ping' used to work, but since a few 
days ago, 'ping' hangs no matter what host I try. i.e., 'ping localhost' will 
transmit & receive one packet, and then hang. Consequently, 'ping -c 1
localhost' works, and immediately returns. This behavior is the same whether 
I use 'localhost', an IP I assign to my netcard, or my static IP I have when 
I connect to the internet.

I noticed that there was an update 'netkit' on redhat's site, and I 
determined by 'rpm -qf `which ping` that it was part of netkit, and I 
upgraded, but still I get the same behavior.

Anyone know what to look at? Has this happened to anyone else?

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