Prior to 9.1 I was able to do the following to connect to the localhost:

telnet 0 or ssh 0

It no longer works for some reason and I get the following error:
0: Name or service not known

Programs like ftp, wget, and lynx still working when using 0.

Has anyone else experienced this? Its not terribly important, but
it is nice to use.

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 21:14:46 GMT, Angelo Brigante, Jr. <see@my.sig.invalid> wrote:
> Prior to 9.1 I was able to do the following to connect to the localhost:
>
> telnet 0 or ssh 0

Why in the world would you want to do that?

> It no longer works for some reason and I get the following error:
> 0: Name or service not known

Ditto.

Quick fix - edit /etc/hosts and add 0 to the end of the localhost line.

I hadn't heard of using 0 as localhost before, I suppose it might come
in handy down the road. Stranger things have happened. :-)

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On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:31:44 -0800, AthlonRob <junkmail@axpr.net> wrote:
> I hadn't heard of using 0 as localhost before

0 is the short version of 0.0.0.0, which normally refers to any local
IP address (well, officially, it refers to any IP address, but
locally-run network utilities treat it as any local IP address). I
don't tend to use it, so I hadn't noticed that it didn't work or looked
into why.


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