[ale] Something is Fishy About My Network

[Kenneth Ratliff]

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On Mar 4, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Brian Pitts wrote:
> 1) 127.0.0.1 is the loopback ip address. [0] If you check your hosts
> file at /etc/hosts [1] it should show that your hostname maps to
> 127.0.0.1 (or maybe 127.0.1.1).

> I don't understand how #2 or #3 could work unless you specifically
> configured your computers and your router's DNS service to make it
> happen. What router and firmware are you using? If your router uses
> dnsmasq as its DHCP and DNS server then this will be easy to  
> configure;
> otherwise it might be best to go with Jim's suggestion of giving all
> your computers static IP addresses and adding the hostnames and
> addresses to your hosts file.

It's also possible he's got something screwed up in his local routing  
table.

He didn't say if he was actually getting an IP, just that he saw the  
router assign him one, but it didn't show his hostname in the table.  
If he's getting the loopback address when he pings his hostname  
(unless his hostname actually is localhost) it sounds like the  
interface just isn't configured with an IP at all

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