Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:- socrates tmp$ telnet localhost 80 telnet: could not resolve localhost/80: Temporary failure in name resolution FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not connected to the

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: Neil Booth writes: FWIW I have exactly the same problem. Just started recently. I have a dial-up connection too. The problem only exists when I'm not connected to the internet. As soon as pppd is up, the problem vanishes, and it reappears when I disconnect. I haven't a clue either.

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

+ Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Telnet complains about a Temporary failure in name resolution Anything else I could try? Any other woody users having the same problem? I have the same problem. I do not know what is exactly the reason for, but I remember it worked some versions and

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: Kai Weber writes: I have the same problem. I do not know what is exactly the reason for, but I remember it worked some versions and on potato before. I tried something on /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf but with no effect. There is no network traffic if I try to telnet or ssh with

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

Subject: telnet doesn't find localhost Date: Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 10:45:11PM -0200 In reply to:Jeronimo Pellegrini Quoting Jeronimo Pellegrini([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hello... This is probably a known problem. I checked the BTS some time ago, and tehre was a bug filed

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: 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...

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

On 23-Oct-2000 Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: 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? I don't have

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

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,

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 03:20:47AM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: iface lo inet loopback It was commented out, I enebled it, and still that didn't work. I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: Michael P Soulier writes: I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 Hm, I did socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: 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

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

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?) 127.0.0.1 localhost

Re: telnet doesn't find localhost

:: Michael P Soulier writes: I have a /etc/init.d/network script on my potato box with these commands: #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 Hm, I did socrates:/home/jeronimo# ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 socrates:/home/jeronimo# route add -net 127.0.0.0