telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution

[Paul Howarth]

(top-posted reordered)

Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On 2/21/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:14 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>>
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I am getting the below error
>>>
>>>[root at bdc31096e root]# telnet 0
>>>telnet: 0: Temporary failure in name resolution
>>>0: Host name lookup failure
>>>[root at bdc31096e root]#
>>
>>What did you expect to happen?
>>
 >
 > I wanted to get it connected and give me this
 >
 > Trying 127.0.0.1...
 > Connected to localhost.
 > Escape character is '^]'.
 > Red Hat Linux release 9 (Shrike)
 > Kernel 2.4.20-31.9 on an i686
 > login:

So do you have a compter called "0" on your network? Is it in your hosts 
file or DNS domain?

Paul.