Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:55:05 -0700 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@mostgraveconcern.com> To: "Zhihui Zhang" <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Message-ID: <075c01bfeed9$a10c1220$0200000a@danco>
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>I have two machines box1 and box2 connected via a parallel cable. I can
>ping from one machine to the other:
>
>box1# ping box2 or box2# ping box1
>
>But I can not ping myself:
>
>box1# ping box1 or box2# ping box2
>
>It says "no route". These two machines do not connect to the outside
>network. They run Freebsd 4.0-release. The /etc/hosts contains the
>following:
>
>192.168.1.0 box1 box1.home.org
>192.168.1.1 box2 box2.home.org
1) If you're not the owner of 'home.org', don't use it (yes, it is a real
domain name). Use box1.home or something similar.
2) Don't use the x.x.x.0 address, since x.x.x.0 represents the whole
network.
3) Make sure you have your loopback address in /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.home localhost
--Dan
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Dan O'Connor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Can not ping myself
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