Can't ping my own local machine by IP address?

Question

I have an Ubuntu machine named ci-server, with wired connection and fixed IP address of 192.168.0.214.

When I ping by IP I get the following output:

administrator@ci-server:~$ ping 192.168.0.214
PING 192.168.0.214 (192.168.0.214) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.0.22 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.22 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.0.22 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable

Note that it started resolving to the correct IP, but then subsequent message had a different IP.

If I do by name it resolves to localhost correctly:

administrator@ci-server:~$ ping ci-server
PING ci-server (127.0.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ci-server (127.0.1.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.019 ms
64 bytes from ci-server (127.0.1.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms
...

The route command gives me this:

administrator@ci-server:~$ route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
default         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0

and 192.168.0.1 is the correct gateway.

I'm not sure about that second entry over there.. should that be removed?

The traceroute doesn't seem useful:

administrator@ci-server:~$ traceroute 192.168.0.214
traceroute to 192.168.0.214 (192.168.0.214), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.22 (192.168.0.22)  2998.079 ms !H  2997.933 ms !H  2997.921 ms !H

This is a VM running on VMware Workstation using bridged network. I cannot ping it from the host, and other VMs cannot ping each other. They were cloned from a template machine so they all have the same issue.

I don't know how to proceed with this. When a process (Tomcat Ant tasks) tries to reach another machine in my network by name, it fails with "java.net.NoRouteToHostException: No route to host".

Any help with this is greatly appreciated!

Solution

What makes you think that your IP is 192.168.0.214? From the looks of it it's 192.168.0.22 ci-server just resolves to 127.0.1.1 you should always be able to ping it. Post ifconfig -a to be sure of IP

Comments

[Edy Bourne]

Damn you're right, ipconfig shows 192.168.0.22! I have configured the network using the GUI, and it seems correct there but for some reason those settings are not being used.. I'll update the question. Thanks!