When I try to add aliases to /etc/hosts it causes connection problems with my internet. Whereby it is connected to my network and it still says it has internet access, but i am unable to view web pages (returns connection error page) or download etc, it does this every 10-15 minutes for 5 minutes. When I take the aliases out of the hosts file and restart apache, it is fine. I am running Ubuntu 12.10.
Here is my Hosts file.
127.0.0.1 localhost sitealias
127.0.1.1 ubuntu
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
I want to know whats causing it, but I would also like to know how you would go about diagnosing the cause for future references.
/etc/hosts
file consistent with your/etc/hostname
file. Otherwise you can experience network problems.ping www.google.com
or atelnet www.google.com 80
do something? 4) what's that ubuntu address supposed to be? All of the 127/8 network is defined as loopback, it looks suspicious to me.