Thanks, that's it! The loopback device was not running, strange enough. "ifconfig lo up" on the host did the trick!
I will change the localhost in entry in /etc/hosts as well, in order to be future-proof.. Have a nice Christmas! Martin Herbert Poetzl wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 01:08:42PM +0100, Martin Honermeyer wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've got a SMP VServer machine running on Gentoo. We have the strange >> problem that it is not possible to connect to the host's addresses from >> withhin the host's addresses itself. Which means: > > sounds a little strange ... > >> * Host can't ping or ssh into any VServer. > > definitely some issue with your setup because the > fact 'Host can't ping any VServer' is equal with > 'host can't ping it's own ip addresses' > >> * No VServer can ping or ssh the host or any VServer, >> including itself (localhost)! > > while the first statement leaves a lot of options > (iptables, network config, etc ...) this reduces > the range to a few, with one very likely candidate > > most likely your lo device is misconfigured > make sure that: > > - lo is up (UP LOOPBACK RUNNING) > - lo is configured with 127.0.0.1/8 > >> This means e.g. Mailman doesn't work on my VServer because >> it uses a TCP socket to connect to Postfix running on the >> same VServer, which doesn't work! Only UNIX sockets are working. > > in any case, make sure that you define the IP > of the vserver as 'localhost' in etc hosts, this > will make sure that the packets are redirected > properly ... > >> Can anyone help? As this is really awkward.. > > HTH, > Herbert > >> Greetz, >> Martin >> >> >> $ uname -a >> Linux vservers 2.6.9-vs1.9.3vs-1.9.3 #1 SMP Wed Nov 24 15:11:19 CET 2004 >> i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz GenuineIntel >> GNU/Linux >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Vserver mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver