telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi

I am getting the below error

[root@bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
0: Host name lookup failure
[root@bdc31096e root]#

Regards

Kaushal

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:14 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am getting the below error
>
> [root@bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
> telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
> 0: Host name lookup failure
> [root@bdc31096e root]#

What did you expect to happen?

Paul.

[Kaushal Shriyan]

Hi Paul

I wanted to get it connected and give me this

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-31.9 on an i686
login:

Regards

Kaushal

On 2/21/06, Paul Howarth  wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:14 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am getting the below error
> >
> > [root@bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
> > telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
> > 0: Host name lookup failure
> > [root@bdc31096e root]#
>
> What did you expect to happen?
>
> Paul.
>
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[Paul Howarth]

(top-posted reordered)

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Paul Howarth  wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:14 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am getting the below error
> > >
> > > [root@bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
> > > telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
> > > 0: Host name lookup failure
> > > [root@bdc31096e root]#
> >
> > What did you expect to happen?
>
> I wanted to get it connected and give me this
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
> Kernel 2.4.20-31.9 on an i686
> login:

So do you have a compter called "0" on your network? Is it in your hosts 
file or DNS domain?

Paul.

[Donald Arseneau]

"Kaushal Shriyan"  writes:
> > > [root@bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
> > > telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
> > > 0: Host name lookup failure
>
> I wanted to get it connected and give me this
>
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.

Are you perhaps coming from VMS, and using DECnet?

Anyway, I don't get a host name failure, but:

$ telnet 0
Trying 0.0.0.0...
telnet: connect to address 0.0.0.0: Connection refused