Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

[Christoph Simon <ciccio@prestonet.com.br>]

> > 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".
> > 
> --<snip>--
> 
> > 
> > I am a bit confused. man 5 hosts didn't help...
> > 
> > Any ideas?

Do you have an alias for localhost, something like

127.0.0.1	localhost	mybox.mynet

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

HTH

-- 
Christoph Simon
ciccio@prestonet.com.br
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