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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!lrk From: lrk@netcom.com (Lyn R. Kennedy) Subject: Re: Please give me a hand with getting 'talk' working.... Message-ID: <lrkCKCLux.KF5@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) References: <1994Jan14.182404.25447@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <2i2eab$lhk@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 16:30:33 GMT Lines: 18 In article <2i2eab$lhk@news.csie.nctu.edu.tw> hesper@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Hesper Chang) writes: >Colin BRADLEY (fox@cs.mcgill.ca) wrote: >: Hello everyone. >: See, the problem is, when I go to talk to someone else on the >: machine, I get "talk: chicken: Unknown host", where chicken is >: the name of my machine.. > I also run into this problem! Does anyone know how to solve it? > Thanks a lot This problem cleared up while I was trying to get slip working. Has something to do with the routing not showing your machine. When I did 'ifconfig' for sl0, it shows up automatically. With ppp, it didn't. Try 'route add yourmachine localhost' or configure a dummy slip route. I'm not quite good enough at this to know why it doesn't work to begin with but it probably needs a better fix.