Fedora 7 telnet-server problem

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Sep 10 20:28:49 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 12:53 -0500, Dan Koehler wrote:
> I am having an issue with the telnet-server for Fedora 7.  I set up 3 
> machines with F7 in the last week, and followed the same procedure 
> with all of them.  I installed telnet-server with the following procedure:
> 
> yum install telnet-server
> edited the appropriate xinetd.d file to turn on telnet
> restarted xinetd
> 
> On the first two machines, telnet worked fine.  On the last install I 
> did, I encountered a problem with the telnet-server.  When I try to 
> telnet into this server, I get the following message:
> 
> Trying 192.168.2.72...
> Connected to 192.168.2.72.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> getaddrinfo: localhost: Success
> Name or service not known: Illegal seek
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> I have never seen this error before.  It happens when I try to telnet 
> to the machine from itself, as well.  What could cause this?  I can't 
> seem to find much information about this problem.
> I do know about ssh and use that as well (ssh works on this machine), 
> but I do need to have telnet working too.

Did network mangler remove local host in /etc/hosts??

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