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From: Stormy@StormCloud.MsState.EDU (Stormy Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Talk won't talk
Date: 24 Nov 1994 20:29:42 GMT
Organization: a state of Purple Madness.
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Dean Thompson wrote:

     Everytime I go to do a talk request I get the following error back:
       Unable to bind to control socket: address(49)

If you are using dynamic PPP or C/SLIP (your IP address changes every time
you dialin), make sure you edit /etc/hosts each time you dialin, putting the
correct IP address for your hostname.

Be happy...


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