Re: [Vserver] localhost

From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at>
Date: Thu 08 Jun 2006 - 12:58:07 BST
Message-ID: <20060608115807.GS11996@MAIL.13thfloor.at>

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:53:10PM +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
> Le 07/06/2006 à 22:39:35+0200, Andreas John a écrit
> > Hello,
> >
> > usually you set in you /etc/hosts file the host 'localhost' to the
> > public IP of the guest. There is no real need to have a 127.0.0.1
> > accessible. If you e.g. ping 127.0.0.1 from within a guest, it get
> > automatically mapped to the public IP of the guest.
> >
> > If you need a 127-x address within your guest, you may add a 127.0.0.2
> > etc. to each guest.
> >
>
> Well..
>
> My real problem is my X11-Forwarding in ssh don't work. I've a host to run
> two guest. On one guest everything work fine (x11 forwarding) and if i ping
> localhost I've something (in term the host known localhost=127.0.0.1).
> On my second guest if I make
>
> ssh -Y guest_on_my_vserver_box
>
> and try
>
> xclock
>
> I've got
>
> [root@guest ~]$ xterm
> _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6012: Name or
> service not known
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: localhost:12.0
>
> and if I try
>
> [root@guest ~]$ ping localhost
> ping: unknown host localhost
>
> What's wrong with my config ?

add the /etc/hosts entry for your public IP and
everything should be fine.

note: there is a config in ssh to use localhost
and another one to enable/disable x forwarding
completely .. you might want to play with that

HTH,
Herbert

> Best regards.
>
> --
> Albert SHIH
> Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
> U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
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