From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 13 01:50:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id BAA02407 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:50:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA02402 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:50:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA10932; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:49:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 01:49:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Virtual hosts In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 9 Oct 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Recently I created some virtual ip's on my system, by adding aliases in > the sysconfig. It works, after rebooting (is it possible to re-read the > sysconfig file without reboot?!) I have all my virtual hosts listed in > ifconfig. But I can't reach the IP from the machine itself. When trying to > connect from other hosts, it works! I can reach the server from other > boxes on the network, but can't just lynx or ping to it from the server > itself. > What's wrong? This may be a routing or alias specification error. What is the line you're using to define the alias, and what does `netstat -rn' report? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major