telnet-server crashes after FC5->FC6

[horst]

the update of the packages worked without errors and everything seems to be running fine, but if i try to access the box via telnet i only get to see this:


# telnet localhost
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
getaddrinfo: localhost: Success
Name or service not known: Illegal seek
Connection closed by foreign host.

any idea what that means?

eidt: after downgrading to telnet-server 0.17-35.2.1 from fc5 it works again, so it seems 0.17-37 is b0rked...

[ggt-labz]

hi horst,

I absolutely agree with you: same error after many verifications around xinetd and telnet server. Whatever you do, you run into the 'Name or Service not known: Illegal seek'.

I am somewhat new with Fedora: how do you get version 0.17.35.2.1 and tell yum to use this one?

Thank you.

[J0hn33y]

You must have the ability to resolve the host name of your system.

I added it to the localhost line in “/etc/hosts”