ping localhost isn't working!

[emamm]

Hello

Although I have no problem to connect to the internet, I noticed that ping localhost won't work. It points to a completely different address.

ping localhost
PING localhost.linuxbox.net (211.106.65.110) 56(84) bytes of data.


Where did this linuxbox.net come from? Is it not suppose to be 127.0.0.1?

more hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost


and ifconfig shows

/sbin/ifconfig
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:5B:D3:44:F0
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:5bff:fed3:44f0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2651 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2422 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1697750 (1.6 MiB) TX bytes:553314 (540.3 KiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0xd400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:5024688 (4.7 MiB) TX bytes:5024688 (4.7 MiB)


What could be wrong?

Many thanks

Ed

[stevea]

1st check the file /etc/hosts.conf
# cat /etc/host.conf
order hosts,bind
Make sure the one-liner reads hosts,bind

Next look harder in your /etc/hosts file.
# grep -i local /etc/hosts
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost localhosts.local

You want both the IPv6 designation (::1) and the IPv4 (127.0.0.1).

[emamm]

Hello

Many thanks. I can ping localhost now

ping localhost
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.259 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.106 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.108 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.108 ms

I want to add a name to my box when I ping boxname it will answer showing ip number 192.168.0.2 (from eth1). How cxan I do that?

Ed