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From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: talk
Date: 14 May 1997 13:32:18 +0100
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>nathan@senate.org (Nathan Dorfman) wrote:

>> For some reason, talk will not work. ntalkd is in my inetd.conf file,
>> but when I try to talk another user on my system, I get this message:
>> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

>I guess your DNS setup is wrong (or you don't use DNS, and your
>/etc/hosts doesn't contain the FQDN or such).

Could it be an endian'ness problem ? I know some versions
of talk have problems. Our old MIPS machines can't talk to
our sparc stations, and give exactly the message you mention.

	David.