Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:58:14 -0500 From: "Fafa Diliha Romanova" <fteg@london.com> To: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Fw: Re: WEIRD: telnet Message-ID: <20050213205814.79F0F4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format... ------------=_1108328294-11692-0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Feb 13 at 15:02, Fafa Diliha Romanova said: >> 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. > thank you for your assistance. > i was just reporting on telnet's badly written reply. > > looks like a 5-year-old wrote it. You made a good point!! Agreed. I never thought of it that way, but=20 yeah...on reflection, you're right. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only ONE. Sun Feb 13 21:33:00 CET 2005 9:33PM up 2 days, 2:48, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 --=20 ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm ------------=_1108328294-11692-0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Delivered-To: fteg:london.com@mail.com Received: (qmail 9667 invoked by uid 0); 13 Feb 2005 20:34:12 -0000 X-OB-Received: from unknown (192.168.9.68) by mta1-8.us4.outblaze.com; 13 Feb 2005 20:34:12 -0000 Received: from t-x.dignus.nl (t-x.dignus.nl [83.219.88.50]) by spf0.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F3E95B2FC for <fteg@london.com>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 20:34:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost.dignus.nl [127.0.0.1]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 65BE128423 for <fteg@london.com>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:34:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (cjr-home [62.251.72.148]) by t-x.dignus.nl (Safehouse) with ESMTP id 5A61928421 for <fteg@london.com>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:34:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (localhost.kozy-kabin.nl [127.0.0.1]) by kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2243D639B for <fteg@london.com>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:34:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (colin@localhost)j1DKY1Xv000227 for <fteg@london.com>; Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:34:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:34:00 +0100 From: "Colin J. Raven" <colin@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> To: Fafa Diliha Romanova <fteg@london.com> Subject: Re: WEIRD: telnet In-Reply-To: <20050213200218.83FEE4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: <20050213210456.N94542@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050213200218.83FEE4BDAA@ws1-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by RemSPAMd at ph230.plushosting.nl On Feb 13 at 15:02, Fafa Diliha Romanova said: >> 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. > thank you for your assistance. > i was just reporting on telnet's badly written reply. > > looks like a 5-year-old wrote it. You made a good point!! Agreed. I never thought of it that way, but yeah...on reflection, you're right. Regards, -Colin -- Colin J. Raven FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE - http://www.FreeBSD.org - There can be only ONE. Sun Feb 13 21:33:00 CET 2005 9:33PM up 2 days, 2:48, 9 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 ------------=_1108328294-11692-0--
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