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connecting (pp):~ >telnet evil.netppl.fi Trying 0.0.0.0... Connected to evil.netppl.fi. Escape character is '^]'. Red Hat Linux release 5.9.7 (Starbuck) (so it connects to localhost instead, works fine when using a IP address) here's the ltrace output inet_aton("evil", 0xbffff65c) = 0 gethostbyname("evil") = 0x40145ab0 strncpy(0x08057a40, "evil.netppl.fi", 64) = 0x08057a40 __bzero(0xbffff658, 16, 0xbffff6f8, 1, 0) = 0 getservbyname(0x0805433e, 0x08054324, 0xbffff6f8, 1, 0) = 0x40145bd0 inet_ntoa(NULL) = "0.0.0.0" printf("Trying %s...\r\n", "0.0.0.0"Trying 0.0.0.0...
Fixed in telnet-0.10-26.