> > 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". > > > --<snip>-- > > > > > I am a bit confused. man 5 hosts didn't help... > > > > Any ideas?
Do you have an alias for localhost, something like 127.0.0.1 localhost mybox.mynet I remember having had a similar problema (long time ago), and since then I always give a local address to ``mybox.mynet'', which is different from 127.0.0.1 HTH -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ^X^C q quit :q ^C end x exit ZZ ^D ? help shit .
