:: Wayne Topa writes: Thanks for replying, Wayne.
>> 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". > Just tried to telnet to localhost and it works fine (potato). Oh, I'm using woody... > Have you modified the /etc/network/interfaces file? You might try > enabling the first line, ie I didn't change it; the problem was almost surely caused by some upgrade; I just don't know which package did it! > iface lo inet loopback It was commented out, I enebled it, and still that didn't work. "lo" was already up before this. Telnet complains about a "Temporary failure in name resolution" Anything else I could try? Any other woody users having the same problem? J. -- Jeronimo Pellegrini Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~jeronimo mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]