I have a server cluster all connected on a local network(all physical machines, not virtual). When trying to ping from Server A to B, I get a Desitination Host Unreachable
. I can ping from B to A no problem, which then allows me to ping from A to B for a short while. Because of this behavior I believe I have an ARP issue, although I do not know how to fix it. When running arp -a
I get the following result ? (10.0.0.105) at <incomplete> on eth1
, which is the IP I am trying to ping. Not sure if it will help at all but here is my /etc/network/interfaces
files for the both machines(I am running Ubuntu 12.04 Server).
Server A
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.0.0.102
netmask 255.255.255.0
Server B
auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 10.0.0.105
netmask 255.255.255.0
Every other server(I have 7 in this network) can be pinged / can ping any other server. It is just a problem between these two. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit
Server A
iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Server B
iptables --list
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
Best Answer
Does sound like a arp problem, if its long spanned vlan over a vpn or similar, you may need to add static arp entries, with an ether address of the local switch.
And if thats the fix, you will have to add this to command to start up scripts.