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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ntalk compatability Date: 5 Feb 1996 11:08:54 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4f4og6$48q@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn4gnbii.dr.feisal@lancelot.valsayn.tt> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed) writes: > I am having problems using talk between machines. On FreeBSD V2.01, the > daemon ntalkd is standard and I am trying to talk to an AIX V3.1.3 box > with their version of ntalkd. The session hangs at "checking for > invitation on callers machine", the same problem exists with another > machine that also runs ntalkd. Yet the AIX box talks to any other box with > ntalkd. Has anyone encountered the same problem? Talk is rather poorly designed. Is one of the machines multi-homed? The current implementation of talk allows multi-homed hosts only to talk via one of their interfaces. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)