Hello... This is probably a known problem. I checked the BTS some time ago, and tehre was a bug filed against telnet, I guess... It couldn't resolve "localhost".
Anyway... I still have that problem, and the telnet package was upgraded (and there wasnt anything in the changelog), so I think it must have been some oterh package. I tried netkit and a few otehrs, but didn't find the bug. But it is still a problem here... I can connect to socrates (which *is* localhost), but not to localhost. I did not touch my /etc/hosts file recently, except that some upgrade did add some ipv6 related stuff there... So I have no idea why this happens. This is a dialup box, and this is what I have in my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 socrates localhost loghost # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts # (added automatically by netbase upgrade) ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts Now, look what happens: socrates tmp$ telnet socrates 80 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to socrates. Escape character is '^]'. socrates tmp$ telnet localhost 80 telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution Yet, ping doesn't seem to be affected by that: socrates tmp$ ping localhost PING socrates (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms socrates tmp$ ping socrates PING socrates (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.1 ms I am a bit confused. man 5 hosts didn't help... Any ideas? Thanks, J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
