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Old 20th August 2009
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Question Can't ping "$ localhost"

Hi,

$ hostname
lilium.my.domain
On the same box:
$ ping lilium.my.domain
ping: unknown host: lilium.my.domain
( $ping lilium gives the same output)

Is this normal? I have this result on two different OpenBSD computers.

$ talk [name]
talk: lilium.my.domain: Unknown host

This makes me think it is not normal. Shouldn't talk work 'out of the box'? Is it necessary to put the local hostname in /etc/hosts ?
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It very normal

If I comment my hostname out
Code:
::1 localhost.utp.xnet localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.utp.xnet localhost
::1 hercules.utp.xnet hercules
#127.0.0.1 hercules.utp.xnet hercules
A ping of hercules.utp.xnet generates the following DNS traffic
Code:
tcpdump: listening on re0, link-type EN10MB
21:28:12.805171 192.168.222.20.28847 > 192.168.222.10.53: 59717+ A? hercules.utp.xnet. (35)
21:28:12.806093 192.168.222.10.53 > 192.168.222.20.28847: 59717 1/0/0 A 192.168.222.20 (51)
Because I have a local nameserver at 192.168.222.10, which resolves my hostname, the ping succeeds
Code:
ping -c2 hercules.utp.xnet 
PING hercules.utp.xnet (192.168.222.20): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.222.20: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.025 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.222.20: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.020 ms
--- hercules.utp.xnet ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 0.020/0.022/0.025/0.005 ms
You probably have no local nameserver for the "my.domain" domain. In those cases you need an entry in "/etc/hosts".

What is the contents of your "/etc/resolv.conf"?
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Thanks for the response. Now I have another, slightly more difficult problem.

This in my configuration.

pietje.xs4all.nl (80.101.175.113) === SpeedTouch router === lilium.my.domain (10.0.0.5)

so these are, my external IP adres, my router and my soekris server called lilium =]

I have setup 10.0.0.5 as the "Default Server" in the NAPT configuration of my SpeedTouch router. You can without a problem connect to my server on http, but I cannot make a http connection to my external IP adres (or hostname) from within my LAN.
So, on lilium, I try:
$lynx pietje.xs4all.nl or $lynx 80.101.175.113
lynx outputs:
Making HTTP connection to 80.101.175.113
And that's it.
$ lynx localhost does work without a problem

$ ping 80.101.175.113
PING 80.101.175.113 (80.101.175.113): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.0.0.5: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.232 ms

This looks funny.

Is this all normal?:-)
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Yes, that is also quite normal See for a similar situation where pf is used to redirect the explanation in http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/rdr.html#reflect.

From the outside your website works. http://80.101.175.113/geekcode.txt gives
Code:
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12
GCS dx s:- a-- C++ UB P+ L++ E- W- N- o K- w 
O M- V- PS PE++ Y PGP+ t 5 X R tv+ b DI- D+ 
G e h! r y+ 
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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It is just in the pf FAQ! But that was impossible for me to know, because I was only going to use pf when I figured out those issues, which appear not to be an issue.

Thanks.
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