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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!panix!news-xfer.netaxs.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ix.netcom.com!enews.sgi.com!news.corp.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!esiee.fr!jussieu.fr!fdn.fr!med.univ-tours.fr!univ-angers.fr!ciril.fr!cnusc.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!univ-bpclermont.fr!llaic!espel From: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: talk woes Date: 11 Apr 1997 23:24:58 GMT Organization: LLAIC, Univ. Clermont-Ferrand 1, France Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5imh8a$28e@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> References: <geoffrey-ya023380001104971250440001@news.netins.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38959 In article <geoffrey-ya023380001104971250440001@news.netins.net>, geoffrey alexander <geoffrey@netins.net> wrote: >Having trouble with the 'talk' command with FreeBSD 2.2.1: [ ... ] Are you sure the machine knows if its IP address correctly? talk is very sensitive to this kind of thing, if the machine has an entry for itself in /etc/hosts (or even in the DNS) with the wrong IP address, most services will still work properly, but talk will fail with exactly this kind of errors. This tends to happen to machines on dynamic IP. Roger -- e-mail: espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr WWW page & PGP key: http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/index.html