Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

[Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>]

:: 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	localhost	mybox.mynet

Yes:

127.0.0.1	localhost	socrates loghost

And I can't telnet to loghost either.

> 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?)

Thank you!
J.

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