Hey.

I am using 2 VPS machines on VMware workstation.

The older one is Debian 5.0 ( Lenny ) and I have successfully installed Static IP to networking and it works fine without any problems.

I just installed another Debian 5.0.6 ( Latest ) Lenny and installed another static IP. It's partially working and partially not. When I ping the server, the ping is successful but if I try to SSH, it says Connection refused and even if I try to use the net through the machine, it doesn't work and host name lookups fail. What could be the issue ?


When I power off the VPS, I am also not able to Ping the server. This proves that the pings are being received by the Server but network is not working properly.

Hi
You told that you're able to ping the machine from the "outside". How about logging in the new VM and ping IP Addresses. Does that work?
Then about your new VM. Did you install openssh as server (is "sshd" running)?

Yes I discovered one more thing.

I can also ping other IP-addresses through the server and I can ping the server too .

So basically the SSH and Hostname lookup fails. For example if I do wget google.com, it fails and so does apt-get install anything. So I am not able to use Addresses or SSH.

Openssh-server and openssh-client are both installed but it says connection refused by server when I try to SSH into the machine.

I have also added Google DNS nameservers to the machine /etc/resolve.conf but still fails.

Sorry all .

Lock this topic. I'm a mad person lol. Had been using resolve.conf instead of resolv.conf