From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 15 20:55:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mostgraveconcern.com (mostgraveconcern.com [216.82.145.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C218737B607 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Received: from danco (danco.mostgraveconcern.com [10.0.0.2]) by mostgraveconcern.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA12711; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@mostgraveconcern.com) Message-ID: <075c01bfeed9$a10c1220$0200000a@danco> Reply-To: "Dan O'Connor" From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Zhihui Zhang" , Subject: Re: Can not ping myself Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:55:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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 -- Dan O'Connor On Matters of Most Grave Concern http://www.mostgraveconcern.com FreeBSD Cheat Sheets http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/ -----Original Message----- From: Zhihui Zhang To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 1:11 PM Subject: Can not ping myself To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message