The following reply was made to PR misc/35254; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Hattemer <c.hattemer@arcor.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/35254: telnet (and others?) provide false/misleading/useless
 error message for name resolution failure
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:42:38 +0100

 Hi,
 
 thanks for filing this PR.
 
 I also was puzzled by exactly this issue (on a different domain, however) 
 the other day. I forgot to file it myself since I was too busy.
 
 The no-check-names option sounds interesting. What would be the default 
 value of it?
 
 But would you please still look into making a more descriptive error message 
 for the case when the option is off? And once this is done please also save 
 the netbsd-4 user's time by making a pullup.
 
 -- 
 Bye, Chris