Help... I can't ping myself :)
Okay, as stupid as this sounds:
I have setup an Apache Webserver on a Mandrake 9.0 machine. When I access the machine from my LAN, I can call up both Apache and Webmin - no problem. However, when I try to ping... The request times out. I can't ping from the LAN or from remote internet. My hosts.allow is blank, and hosts.deny is: ALL:ALL EXECEPT 127.0.0.1:DENY I suspect this is the issue (but then why can I access the Linux box through both LAN FTP and HTTP?), but I'm not sure. I have turned off shorewall and iptables just to see if that worked, and I still couldn't ping. Any ideas? The server is behind a cable/dsl router (DI-604) which has a firewall - I don't really need it on the Linux box... Do I? Any help would be greatly appreciated... -S |
One more thing
Oh, I can't ping from localhost, either.
In other words, I can't ping from the box to 127.0.0.1. The ifconfig looks normal as far as I can tell, and obviously the netcard works, cuz I access webmin from another computer. Shrug |
Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/hosts file.
127.0.0.1 localhost |
Well, it works
Well, I got it to work - I can now ping (the sysctl file had it off).
Unfortunately, I *still* can't access the server from outside the LAN (sigh) -S |
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