From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 31 12:38:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05734 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:38:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA05729 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 12:38:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA00570; Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:39:18 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:39:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: Ben Black cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ping failure to alias FIXED!!!!!! In-Reply-To: <9610312022.AA15063@squid.gage.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ok, so what was the problem? > > > b3n > > Actually I changed so much it was hard to tell, but here is what I fixed #1 added stuff into the route_ section in sysconfig (from what you sent me unchanged except localhost=>127.0.0.1 and ${hostname}=>157.182.105.122) I recreated my hosts file because a few constructs looked fishy I might have been up too late hacking something when I put the following in: 127.0.0.1 localhost.hsc.wvu.edu localhost 157.182.105.124 www.hsc.wvu.edu 157.182.105.123 hscnet.hsc.wvu.edu 124 was wrong should have been 122 and the top was changed to 127.0.0.1 localhost So maybe you can add to your page in the "if ping still fails" to look at the hosts file and add the two routes in sysconfig that you showed me. thanks for all the help.