Fedora 7 telnet-server problem

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:11 -0500, Dan Koehler wrote:
> Ok, I just solved my own problem.  On a whim, I compared the 
> "/etc/hosts" file on the two machines that had a working 
> telnet-server, and on the one that didn't work.  I noticed that on 
> the bad server, the FQDN was not in the first line.  The first line read:
> 
> 127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost	SuperNova

I would think it would just read:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain	localhost
> Wheras on the other two, the first line was similar to the following:
> 127.0.0.1		localhost.localdomain	localhost

... and your ethernet ip address: 
XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX Commander.mydomain.com Commander
would be on the next. Ric

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