(usagi-users 02642) Re: telnet error

[Peter Bieringer <pb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 02:20:56 PM -0800 Yang Hsiung
<yhsiung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am using the USAGI stable 20030214 kit to run the telnet command,
> if failed with "Invalid argument". Both the in.telnetd and telnet commands
> are IPv6 version from the USAGI kit. For example,
> 
> telnet fe80::240:5ff:fe34:d97f -l username

Well-known issue: usage of link-local addresses in application is not
really a good choice because of missing scope.

Try to append something like %<interface> at the address, perhaps it works.
If not, configure a global or a site-local address.

        Peter
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