hallo,

when i telnet to a port and a connection is refused, for some reason telnet tries to connect twice. i have never seen a telnet to display "Trying hostname..." before... this only happens when telnetting to localhost --> remote telnet is refused only once as it supposed to be. any ideas?

Mine doesn't. Please check your /etc/hosts (localhost must be in there), your /etc/resolv.conf and your nameserver(s). All of them must (!) resolve "localhost." and reverse. The package nkitb-2000.3.2-3 (which contains telnet) is installed on my 6.4, and the md5sum for /usr/bin/telnet is 5ef916bed5863e55f5ac1fde59606d66 .

alexm@quake:~ > telnet localhost 13 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused Trying localhost... telnet: connect to address localhost: Connection refused

alexm@quake:~ > telnet localhost 19 Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused Trying localhost... telnet: connect to address localhost: Connection refused

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