Linux can not ping to localhost, but no problem pinging outside
January 2, 2007 – 7:49 amI have an … let say … abnormal situation, where my linux box can not ping localhost nor being pinged from outside, but there’s no problem to ping outside host/ip address.
Have been googling arround for a while … and found a result, that solve my problem.
In file /etc/sysctl.conf there are two lines in vice-versa :
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=0
Put a comment in line with 0, to be like this :
net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=1
#net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all=0
And voila … now i can ping localhost, and ping the machine from outside.
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