Package: telnet Version: 0.17-29 Severity: minor This has been discussed before: <http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/06/msg03441.html>
And redhat seems to have already experienced it and fixed it too: <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=135125> Quoting from the redhat bug report: For the past - Oh, I don't know, two decades? - 0 resolves to 127.0.0.1, and so "telnet 0 25" would connect to the local machine's smtp server, or "telnet 0 80" connects to the local HTTP server. Not so in RHEL3. WTF? WTF indeed. "telnet 0 25" (12 keystrokes including the RET) is now "telnet localhost 25" (19 keystrokes), a >36% increase in manual labor, which will surely cause a carpal tunnel epidemic if not repealed. "telnet 0.0.0.0 25" still works, but it's sooo awkward. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.29 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages telnet depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii netbase 4.21 Basic TCP/IP networking system -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
