On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 04:21, James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > thorin wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Got a very frustrating problem here, I've been trying to use hamachi to play a few games over it's virtual lan connection. With all the games in question, be they native or run via wine, they all seem to not be able to pick up on the hamachi network. >> >> My /etc/hosts file has the following entries. >> 5.86.189.163 sirbubbles-desktop >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 127.0.1.1 sirbubbles-desktop >> > > Is this normal? I don't think you can name a system with two different > IP addresses. > That's the standard Ubuntu setup. The loopback interface ussually responds on the entire 127.0.0.0/8 network. Gert
