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Bug 135125

Summary: telnet: 0: Name or service not known
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Mike Batchelor <mike.batchelor>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description Mike Batchelor 2004-10-08 20:34:36 UTC 
Description of problem: "telnet 0 25" does not connect to
localhost:25. Instead it throws an error "0: Name or service no known".

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
telnet-0.17-26.i386.rpm

How reproducible: fails every time


Steps to Reproduce:
1. telnet 0 25
2. weep
3. weep some more
  
Actual results:
telnet: 0: Name or service not known

Expected results:
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.0.0.0.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 hostname ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:36:17
-0700

Additional info:
For the past - Oh, I don't know, two decades? - 0 resolves to
127.0.0.1, and so "telnet 0 25" would connect to the local machine's
smtp server, or "telnet 0 80" connects to the local HTTP server.  Not
so in RHEL3.  WTF?
Comment 1 Harald Hoyer 2004-10-11 08:31:27 UTC 
please provide:
$ which telnet
and do you have ipv6 enabled?
Comment 2 Mike Batchelor 2004-10-11 16:42:25 UTC 
ipv6 is not enabled.  Turns out the telnet in my path was
/usr/kerberos/bin/telnet, but /usr/bin/telnet returns the same error.
I believe this is not a bug in telnet after all, but glibc's
gethostbyname().  In fact, it looks like this was broken intentionally
in the glibc 2.3 series, for some reason.  gethostbyname() no longer
resolves undotted decimal addresses, or hexadecimal or octal
addresses.  It used to, but not anymore. "telnet 0 25" is one of the
casualties.
Comment 4 Jakub Jelinek 2005-01-20 11:30:41 UTC 
Both gethostname ("0") and getaddrinfo ("0", NULL, NULL, &res);
return the same thing as they used to.
So the change is not in glibc.
Comment 5 Harald Hoyer 2005-01-20 11:36:31 UTC 
well, nothing change in the source code of telnet
Comment 6 Harald Hoyer 2005-01-20 12:41:59 UTC 
Retested. Works for me on a RHEL3-U3...
Comment 7 Harald Hoyer 2005-01-20 12:44:07 UTC 
doh... fell in the trap... tested with /usr/kerberos/bin/telnet (which works)
/usr/bin/telnet failed like described in the bug report.
Comment 8 Harald Hoyer 2005-01-20 12:57:49 UTC 
With a RHEL3-U4 glibc:

getaddrinfo("0", "25", 0xbfffe250, 0xbfffd9e4)   = -2
gai_strerror(-2)                                 = "Name or service not known"
Comment 9 Jakub Jelinek 2005-01-20 16:38:31 UTC 
Ok, this seems to be http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=296
Comment 10 Jakub Jelinek 2005-02-15 06:49:36 UTC 
Should be fixed in glibc-2.3.2-95.32.
Comment 11 Tim Powers 2005-05-18 13:59:56 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-256.html