From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 13 14:59:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C45E16A4CE for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:59:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B40943D48 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:59:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 758241C0009F for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:59:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1112.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5DCB21C0009E for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:59:11 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050213145911384.5DCB21C0009E@mwinf1112.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:59:11 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1736042877.20050213155911@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: WEIRD: telnet X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:59:12 -0000 Fafa Diliha Romanova writes: > what's with this badly written error message? > > # telnet localhost:61 > localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known Replace the colon with a space in the command line. -- Anthony