On Sunday 13 February 2005 09:53 am, Fafa Diliha Romanova wrote: > what's with this badly written error message? > > # telnet localhost:61 > localhost:21: hostname nor servname provided, or not known
It means it tried to look up localhost:61 and couldn't make sense out of it. I believe "servname" is intended to mean "service name", i.e. the port number or name. > > have somebody compromised my telnet maybe? No. The correct syntax is "telnet localhost 61" or "telnet localhost ni-mail" where "ni-mail" is the name of the service that is officially registered to run on port 61. "man telnet" might also be informative. - Bob > > thanks, > fafa _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
