[13400] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.6F: telnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 4 13:51:07 1995
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tom@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 1995 13:50:53 EDT
System name: pos
Type and version: KN02ca 7.6F
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
telnet
% telnet foo.mit.edu
...including Athena's default telnet options: "-ax"
foo: Error 0
What's wrong:
error message not useful
What should have happened:
It should have said "cannot resolve name 'foo.mit.edu'".
Also, changing the option message to "using telnet options -ax"
would make it easier to understand.