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.
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