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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: rlogin localhost (security hole)
Message-ID: <C66z8C.2G8@veda.is>
Date: 28 Apr 93 11:43:09 GMT
References: <1993Apr27.191444.29243@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> <C65xo9.Et@veda.is> <1993Apr28.015440.5692@oz.plymouth.edu>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes:

>>$ rlogin localhost
>>localhost: Undefined error: 0

>	I tried this, no problem for me.  Perhaps you do not have
>you system configured properly.

It was a problem with the nameserver configuration. Localhost and 127.0.0.1
were incorrectly mapped. I am still surprised that a nameserver problem
should be able to make rlogind dump core.

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Adam D. (adam@veda.is)