From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 23:47:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cheese.stanford.edu (cheese.Stanford.EDU [171.66.16.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5C437B423 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:47:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (goodwill@localhost) by cheese.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03898 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:48:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodwill@cheese.stanford.edu) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 23:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Goodwill To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: servname not supported for ai_socktype 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 I'll respond to my own message with a solution. ...after looking around and reading solaris email lists, i figured out my /etc/services file was corrupt. i fixed it, rebooted, and ta-da! everything was back to working. this does mean, however, that the SSH client that ships with 4.1 is strange and doesn't use the services file. -patrick. On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Patrick Goodwill wrote: > To all: > > I have a rather strange problem, if any of you can help, i'd be most > appreciative. > > I'm currently running freebsd 4.0. It was working like a charm until, > randomly, TELNET and FTP stopped working, but SSH continues to work. > Since I usually use SSH, i don't know when / what broke them. > > Whenever I try and use telnet or ftp, my system responds, "servname not > supported for ai_socktype". It also refuses incoming connections... but > only to TELNET and FTP, HTTP still accepts with no qualms. > > Any ideas? > > Patrick. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message