On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 12:53 -0500, Dan Koehler wrote: > I am having an issue with the telnet-server for Fedora 7. I set up 3 > machines with F7 in the last week, and followed the same procedure > with all of them. I installed telnet-server with the following procedure: > > yum install telnet-server > edited the appropriate xinetd.d file to turn on telnet > restarted xinetd > > On the first two machines, telnet worked fine. On the last install I > did, I encountered a problem with the telnet-server. When I try to > telnet into this server, I get the following message: > > Trying 192.168.2.72... > Connected to 192.168.2.72. > Escape character is '^]'. > getaddrinfo: localhost: Success > Name or service not known: Illegal seek > Connection closed by foreign host. > > I have never seen this error before. It happens when I try to telnet > to the machine from itself, as well. What could cause this? I can't > seem to find much information about this problem. > I do know about ssh and use that as well (ssh works on this machine), > but I do need to have telnet working too. Did network mangler remove local host in /etc/hosts?? -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
