Jacco Hoeve wrote:
Andreas Janssen wrote: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
It does the same in woody.
Use the full IP address or name of the host you want to connect to.I know that's the way ..but why doesn't 0 work? It's a RFC guideline thing.. just like "ping 0".
Please cite the RFC that specifies this. So far as I know, the only standard way to write IPv4 addresses is as a dotted quad. The formats that use 1 to 3 parts are Berkeley-isms. POSIX requires inet_addr to support them, but it doesn't specify the telnet command.
Ben.