Re: [ALUG] Pinging Server's 127.*.*.* subnet

On 25 July 2011 17:56, <steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk> wrote:

I was trying to add a extra IP address to my server's localhost because I wanted to run a apache virtual host on a separate IP address.

I used sudo ip addr add 127.0.0.5/32 dev lo

and then I could ping 127.0.0.5 successfully.

Your "lo" interface should have a mask of 255.0.0.0 which means 127.*.*.*, so you don't need to explicitly add any more local addresses. Just use them! Tim.