From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 3 14:10:56 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA01280 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:10:56 -0700 Received: from phoenix.volant.org (volant.scruznet.com [205.179.79.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA01271 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:10:46 -0700 From: patl@asimov.volant.org Received: from asimov.volant.org (asimov.volant.org [205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA03232 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:09:52 -0700 Received: by asimov.volant.org (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA04502; Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:15:16 -0700 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 1995 14:15:16 -0700 Message-Id: <9509032115.AA04502@asimov.volant.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't ping myself on PPP address Reply-To: lashley@netcom.com X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I've just set up FreeBSD 2.0.5 with a PPP link to an ISP. When I attempt to ping my machine at its PPP address, I get no response. Is this expected of PPP, or do I probably have something wrong in my configuration? I have set up a subnet so that other local hosts find the gateway on its ethernet port, but currently the resolver is reporting the PPP address as the primary address from the gateway itself. This is causing some network apps to fail. (E.g., I can connect Netscape to my http daemon if I use http://localhost/, but not if I use the real hostname.) Thanks, -Pat