:: Christoph Simon writes: >> > 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".
> Do you have an alias for localhost, something like > 127.0.0.1 localhost mybox.mynet Yes: 127.0.0.1 localhost socrates loghost And I can't telnet to loghost either. > 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 What do you mean? How did you do that? (Or, where can I find some more info about it?) Thank you! J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]