RE: telnet problem

["Jacco Hoeve" <jaccoh@infogateway.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: news [mailto:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 12:53 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: telnet problem
> 
> Hello
> 
> Jacco Hoeve (<jaccoh@infogateway.org>) wrote:
> 
> > One more quick question:
> >
> > I am used to typing "telnet 0 port" .. but after I upgraded woody to
> > sarge "telnet 0" gives:
> >
> > server01:/etc# telnet 0 25
> > telnet: could not resolve 0/25: Name or service not known
> 
> Use the full IP address or name of the host you want to connect to.
> 
> best regards
>  Andreas Janssen
> 

I know that's the way ..but why doesn't 0 work? It's a RFC guideline thing..
just like "ping 0".