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Description of problem: Netcat spews an illegible error message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): nc-1.100-1.fc14.i686 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run `nc localhost 22` Actual results: Netcat aborts and displays: "nc: port number ���"���,���: 22" Expected results: Should connect me through to the local ssh machine. Additional info: Not specific to localhost, nor the port number.
[mark@eagle ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nc nc-1.100-1.fc14.i686 I have the same problem on FC14 after doing a yum update last weekend. The nc does not seem to connect to the specified port number, in that an nc listening doesn't end when using nc to connect to the listening port, indicating no session was started to be terminated. nc still listens ok. telnet will connect to a listening nc which ends when the session does. [mark@eagle ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/bin/nc nc-1.100-1.fc14.i686 [mark@eagle ~]$ nc -l localhost 1099 [mark@eagle ~]$ echo "xxx" | nc localhost 1099 nc: port number æÇ¿éÇ¿óÇ¿: 1099 [mark@eagle ~]$ telnet localhost 1099 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. "yum downgrade nc" took me back to nc.i686 0:1.84-23.fc14 which works as expected.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 694407 ***