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Date:      Thu, 12 Mar 1998 14:19:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Justin Clay <justinc@4dcomm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hmm
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312141929.17791G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980312015054.6801A-100000@justin>

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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



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