On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:11 -0500, Dan Koehler wrote: > Ok, I just solved my own problem. On a whim, I compared the > "/etc/hosts" file on the two machines that had a working > telnet-server, and on the one that didn't work. I noticed that on > the bad server, the FQDN was not in the first line. The first line read: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost SuperNova I would think it would just read: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > Wheras on the other two, the first line was similar to the following: > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ... and your ethernet ip address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Commander.mydomain.com Commander would be on the next. Ric -- ================================================ 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 ================================================
