I am not able to ping localhost
ashish@ashishk:~$ ping localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- localhost ping statistics --- 16 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 15003ms Here is my host file :
ashish@ashishk:~/chef-repo/.chef$ cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 115.112.95.170 ashishk.example.com chef # 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 1 Answer
Got solution :
ashish@ashishk:~/chef-repo/.chef$ vim /etc/sysctl.conf
# Ignore Directed pings net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_all = 1 made it 0 it worked
