Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 10:20:13 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob89@bobj.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com> Subject: Re: WEIRD: telnet Message-ID: <200502131020.14551.bob89@bobj.org> In-Reply-To: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050213145302.14A9E4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:53 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > what's with this badly written error message? > > # telnet localhost:61 > localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known It means it tried to look up localhost:61 and couldn't make sense out of it. I believe "servname" is intended to mean "service name", i.e. the port number or name. > > have somebody compromised my telnet maybe? No. The correct syntax is "telnet localhost 61" or "telnet localhost ni-mail" where "ni-mail" is the name of the service that is officially registered to run on port 61. "man telnet" might also be informative. - Bob > > thanks, > fafa
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