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From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ntalkd problem
Date: 29 Jan 1997 00:37:50 GMT
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In article <01bc0a10$3cedc060$6330fa9e@org-qsar2.chem.msu.su>,
	"Eugene Radchenko" <genie@org.chem.msu.su> writes:
> Hi!
> Has anyone made the ntalkd to work on 2.1R? It just does not work and does
> log dozens of "address family not supported by protocol family" errors.
> AFAIU, it's caused by ntalkd's using "struct osockaddr" and passes it to
> sendto as "struct sockaddr"  which has different layout.

I thought ntalk was part of 2.1R? It certainly is part of 2.1.6R (look
in /etc/inetd.conf ... `talkd' is bound to the ntalk port). What you
may have problems with is compiling the (o)talkd...

Gary