[lug] Localhost telnet'ing problem

[Hugh Brown]

You are trying to telnet to a software network interface on your local
machine.  I don't think it's an error.  I think it's a feature (similar
to trying to call the phone that you are dialing from).

Hugh

Justin wrote:
> 
> I was playing with my latest webmin installation and was trying to telnet to
> the localhost on one of the screens it has. Nothing happened and I noticed the
> following in the logfile:
> 
> Sep 27 22:18:35 localhost in.telnetd[12338]: connect from 127.0.0.1
> Sep 27 22:18:35 localhost telnetd[12338]: ttloop:  read: Broken pipe
> 
> I cannot telnet to localhost or 127.0.0.1 either when logged into a shell. Any
> ideas what might cause this error?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Justin