Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:04:26 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WEIRD: telnet Message-ID: <20050213160059.G94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On Feb 13 at 09:53, Fafa Diliha Romanova ASKED: > what's with this badly written error message? > > # telnet localhost:61 > localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > have somebody compromised my telnet maybe? No, the syntax is incorrect telnet <hostname> [space] port_number so in this case: telnet localhost 61 Some tangential observations: 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to turn it off. 2. Please tell us that - in the example above - you weren't telnet'ing as root? I see it was to locahost...but even so that's not a great practice. Regards & HTH, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only One Sun Feb 13 16:04:00 CET 2005 4:04PM up 1 day, 21:19, 9 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.00, 0.00
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