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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: How to re-activate "talk" Date: 20 May 1997 08:01:34 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5lrlou$d97@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <87202A30E2A006FC.A716A1E562667D03.E12CC6758DBD9345@library-proxy.airnews.net> <5lpdkk$h86@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6894 brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > > Does anyone know where we should start looking to fix "talk"? > > Sounds like a DNS reverse lookup problem. Talk's very finicky about > DNS lookups. Also, not sure whether BSD/OS ever included my fix for talk not working with multi-homed hosts. The symptoms are vastly the same, ``Waiting for invitation...''. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j