servname not supported for ai_socktype
Patrick Goodwill
I have a rather strange problem, if any of you can help, i'd be most
appreciative.
I'm currently running freebsd 4.0. It was working like a charm until,
randomly, TELNET and FTP stopped working, but SSH continues to work.
Since I usually use SSH, i don't know when / what broke them.
Whenever I try and use telnet or ftp, my system responds, "servname not
supported for ai_socktype". It also refuses incoming connections... but
only to TELNET and FTP, HTTP still accepts with no qualms.
Any ideas?
Patrick.
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Patrick Goodwill
...after looking around and reading solaris email lists, i figured out my
/etc/services file was corrupt. i fixed it, rebooted, and ta-da!
everything was back to working. this does mean, however, that the SSH
client that ships with 4.1 is strange and doesn't use the services file.
-patrick.