Entry in /etc/host file not working

linux ubuntu hosts

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All of you are absolutely correct. The ip of the server was changed. After updating the new IP , I am able to ping and connect by browser. Thank you so much .

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Akshay

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Akshay almost 2 years
I am facing an issue when I make the entry
```
192.168.32.56 example.org
```
in /etc/hosts file ,it does not work. But when I remove it , it starts working. Below is my /etc/hosts file for Ubuntu 16 . I also changed the permissions of hosts file to 777, then also its not working. A few days back it was working but it stopped now.
```
# BEGIN hosts added by Network Connect
192.0.47.198  access-dc.example.org
# END hosts added by Network Connect
127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.1.1       icanw42slpc2666

# 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

# LA 
192.168.32.56  example.org

# DC
#192.168.47.56  example.org
```
- Akshay over 4 years
  
  when I do ping example.org it does not respond. Also when I go to browser and then type example.org , the page does not come up.
- Stephen Kitt over 4 years
  
  Does ping 192.168.32.56 work?
- Akshay over 4 years
  
  PING example.org (192.168.32.56) 56(84) bytes of data. ^C --- example.icann.org ping statistics --- 253 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 258046ms
- muru over 4 years
  
  So the hosts entry is working (see it says example.org (192.168.32.56)). If the host on that IP doesn't respond, adding entries to /etc/hosts isn't going to change anything.
- Akshay over 4 years
  
  ping 192.168.32.56 does not work.
- Stephen Kitt over 4 years
  
  Yes, that’s what we’re saying: since you can’t reach the host, nothing in /etc/hosts can help you. Since example.org is being resolved to 192.168.32.56, the entry in /etc/hosts itself is working — the only purpose of /etc/hosts is to provide name resolution. Network connectivity is another problem.
- Akshay over 4 years
  
  people on windows are able to do it.. why not from linux? Also it was working before some time for me as well on linux
- Panki over 4 years
  
  This has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or Windows. A windows system can't ping an address it can't reach either.
- roaima over 4 years
  
  Put the permissions of the file back to the correct value