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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!swrinde!emory!nntp.msstate.edu!StormCloud.MsState.EDU!Stormy 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. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3b2t3m$9td@Tut.MsState.Edu> References: <3b1vn7$7nj@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> Reply-To: Stormy@Grand.Mother.Com NNTP-Posting-Host: port1.ts2.msstate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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... ---------------------------------- - Stormy Henderson, Happinator - - stormy@mail.mother.com - ----------------------------------