Description of problem:

Telnet command loops printing

sleep(5) from telnet, after select

if -b is specified for an unavailable interface.

In this state, the escape char is not recognized, and INT (^C) doesn't work either.

The only out is to kill the process from another window.

Telnet should exit after printing the "Cannot assign requested address" error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

This is fedora 14 - up to date as of 7-May-11 - I can't find a version number for the telnet command (with -v, --version, or help from an escape.)  Perhaps that should also be addreses.

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. telnet -b validhost.not.local.interface valid.remote.host 25
2.
3.
  
Actual results:

#  telnet -b posted.example.net hormel.ieee.org 25
Trying 140.98.193.224...
posted.example.net: Cannot assign requested address
No connection.
Escape character is '^]'.
SetSockOpt: Bad file descriptor
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^]sleep(5) from telnet, after select

^]sleep(5) from telnet, after select
qsleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Csleep(5) from telnet, after select
^Zsleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
sleep(5) from telnet, after select
Terminated


Expected results:

#  telnet -b posted.example.net hormel.ieee.org 25
Trying 140.98.193.224...
posted.example.net: Cannot assign requested address
#


Additional info: