Fw: Re: WEIRD: telnet

Fafa Diliha Romanova fteg at london.com
Sun Feb 13 12:58:15 PST 2005


On Feb 13 at 15:02, Fafa Diliha Romanova said:

>> 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.

> thank you for your assistance.
> i was just reporting on telnet's badly written reply.
>
> looks like a 5-year-old wrote it.

You made a good point!! Agreed. I never thought of it that way, but 
yeah...on reflection, you're right.

Regards,
-Colin
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