James McKenzie 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. > > James McKenzie > > > > > > > That's done in order to direct traffic from the hamachi ip into my real ip address. Should I remove that entry? I was advised to add that in on several forums, and it certainly hasn't done any harm. I can ping users on hamachi just fine, and I can ping other addresses normally too.
