Gert van den Berg wrote about Hamachi annoyances > >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. That is strange and with most Unixes, would not work. I guess the folks at Ubuntu figured it out and got it working. However, this does not address why Hamachi suddenly stopped working under Wine. My guess is that the network is not accessable. It would be interesting to see what a ping/traceroute looks like to the other systems attempting to connect, if that is possible to do. > >The loopback interface ussually responds on the entire 127.0.0.0/8 network. I agree. It is very unusual to have the system in the hosts file twice. James McKenzie
