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Subject: Re: WHAT KIND OF SH*T IS THIS: telnet and ssh
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Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:47:31 -0500
> "Fafa Diliha Romanova" <fteg@london.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>let's get straight to it:
> 
> 
> Yes:
> 
> 1, post to the appropriate list(s) (bugs@fFreeBSD.org is not, at least
> not w/o a PR).
> 2. Double-check before reporting.
> 
> 
>>whenever i telnet or ssh to something that's offline, i get e.g.:
>>ssh: hostname.domain.com: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
> 
> 
> here it says:
> 
>>ssh itetcu@hostname
> 
> ssh: connect to host hostname.doa.ain port 22: Operation timed out
> 
> 

I am seeing what Fafa sees:
$ ssh ewlkjfsd
ssh: ewlkjfsd: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

$ telnet sdfklh
sdfklh: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

$ uname -a
FreeBSD paranoia 5.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #5: Tue Jan 25 
10:43:40 GMT 2005     root@paranoia:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/paranoia  i386

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.8.1p1 FreeBSD-20040419, OpenSSL 0.9.7d 17 Mar 2004

Chris