You need to add a route to the virtual host:

		route add my.virtual.host localhost

	(This is all in /etc/netstart, just use /etc/ifaliases)

	PS: Anyone want to write a man page for /etc/ifaliases so
	people know its there? :)

                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

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On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Dante Profeta wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have to set up a virtual host.
> For this pourpouse I need to make an IP alias, so I issued this command
> to ifconfig:
> 
> # ifconfig ep0 inet my.virtual.host alias
> 
> (assuming that my.virtual.host is translated by a DNS entry
> [195.X.X.217], that DNS starts a long before the ifconfig and that DNS
> works!)
> Well, now, if I do a ping or telnet from another machine to the host
> machine, everithing is pretty good.
> But if I do the same operation on the host machine (ping or telnet or
> else), the system is unable to connect, and traceroute says:
> 
>     sendto: Host is down
> 
> # ifconfig -a
> gives me the following informations:
> 
> ep0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
>         inet 195.X.X.198 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 195.X.X.223
> lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST>
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> 
> but nothing about my virtual host (195.X.X.217)
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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