Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Neil Booth writes: > FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have > a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not > connected to the internet. As soon as pppd is up, the problem > vanishes, and it reappears when I disconnect. > I haven't a clue eithe

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-26 Thread Neil Booth
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:- > socrates tmp$ telnet localhost 80 > telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not connected to the i

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Kai Weber writes: > I have the same problem. I do not know what is exactly the reason for, > but I remember it worked some versions and on potato before. > I tried something on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf but with no > effect. > There is no network traffic if I try to telnet or ssh w

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-25 Thread Kai Weber
+ Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Telnet complains about a "Temporary failure in name resolution" > > Anything else I could try? > Any other woody users having the same problem? I have the same problem. I do not know what is exactly the reason for, but I remember it worked some versio

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> :: Michael P Soulier writes: > > > I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these > > commands: > > > #! /bin/sh > > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > > route add -net 127.0.0.0 > > Hm, I did > > socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> > 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?) 127.0.0.1 localhost 1

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: 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 localh

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Michael P Soulier writes: > I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: > #! /bin/sh > ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 > route add -net 127.0.0.0 Hm, I did socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:20:47AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > iface lo inet loopback > > It was commented out, I enebled it, and still that didn't work. I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Christoph Simon
> > 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". > > > > > > > > I am a bit confused. man 5 hosts didn't help... > > > > Any ideas? Do you have an al

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Pollywog
On 23-Oct-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > It was commented out, I enebled it, and still that didn't work. > > "lo" was already up before this. Telnet complains about a "Temporary > failure in name resolution" > > Anything else I could try? > Any other woody users having the same problem? I

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: Wayne Topa writes: Thanks for replying, Wayne. >> 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". > Just tried to telnet to localhost and it works fine (potato). Oh, I'm using woody

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

2000-10-22 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: telnet doesn't find localhost Date: Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:45:11PM -0200 In reply to:Jeronimo Pellegrini Quoting Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello... > > This is probably a known problem. I checked the BTS some time ago, > and tehre was a bug filed