From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 14:22:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA11638 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:22:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA11248 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA17826; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:19:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:19:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Justin Clay cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hmm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Justin Clay wrote: > I didn't notice this problem until i tried using talk about a day ago. > I get connection refused from localhost (talk,telnet) > Mar 12 01:50:28 justin telnetd[6798]: warning: can't verify hostname: > gethostbyname(localhost.4d.net) failed > Mar 12 01:50:28 justin telnetd[6798]: refused connect from root@127.0.0.1 > > i installed tcpd about 2 weeks ago and i figure it must have something to > do with his but i'm not sure how. Thanks in advance! add an entry for `localhost' in /etc/hosts, pointing at 127.0.0.1. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message