Why can't I telnet to "geidiprime.servebeer.com", which is my FQDN?
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ telnet localhost nntp
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.11.5 running at servebeer.com (my fqdn:
geidiprime.servebeer.com)
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ telnet geidiprime
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ telnet geidiprime.servebeer.com
telnet: geidiprime.servebeer.com: Name or service not known
geidiprime.servebeer.com: Unknown host
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 servebeer.com geidiprime localhost
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=geidiprime.servebeer.com
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$ date
Mon Aug 21 23:02:17 IST 2006
[thufir@geidiprime ~]$
thanks,
Thufir
