i believe what he was saying is you do not need, nor should you, define a lo interface at all unless you intend to map localhost to another address such as 127.0.0.2 or some such... normal 127.0.0.1 localhost interface is automatically created at startup. i do not have any lo defined anywhere and all my vservers have a unique localhost provided for them. i can see multiple problems created by defining the lo interface for 127.0.0.1. best to remove it from your definitions. On Friday 30 October 2009, Gerhard Mehsel wrote: > Hello Herbert, > > thank you for your reply! > > I got it working now. After suppling correct params for the build > command like this > vserver vs2 build \ > -m debootstrap --context 1234 \ > --hostname vs2 \ > --interface eth0:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/26 \ > --interface 0=eth0:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/26 \ > --interface lo:127.0.0.1/32 \ > -- -d lenny -m http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian > > it configured the guests network correctly. Now I have inside my guest: > eth0 : IP and netmask correct > eth0:0 IP and netmask correct > lo > > But nevertheless your information helped me to understand more about the > guest network configuration. > > > please avoid the 2.6.26 kernels, they are known-to-be-broken > In which way are they broken? Do I have an alternative? I'm using the > linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686 as it is the Lenny standard vserver > kernel after a fresh installation. > > > you usually do not specify 127.0.0.1 for a guest, > > unless you exactly know what you are doing :) > > as you can read, I don't know what I'm doing :-) > But why not use --interface lo:127.0.0.1/32 ? > I use it to bind mysqld to 127.0.0.1:3306 > > > BTW I have another problem now: I installed apache2 inside the guest and > it cannot start up. Apache complains, that it cannot bind to 0.0.0.0:80 > As there is no other services listening to port 80 and I cannot find > any zombie pids from apache I'm not sure if it is still a networking > problem or perhaps a result of the 2.6.26 kernel bug? Or is it me (= > configuration problem)? > What do you think? > > > Have a nice time, > Gerd > > -- Chuck