From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 2 12:00:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09217 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:00:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09211 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:00:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA02320; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:00:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 12:00:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Victor A. Sudakov" cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 30 Nov 1996, Victor A. Sudakov wrote: > When a dial-up user logs in into my computer via a modem and I > wish to talk to him, "talk" would not run, it just says: > > [Couldn't bind to control socket : Can't assign requested address (49)] > > and exits. > > If you have any ideas what the problem might be, I would be > very grateful. I believe, and someone please correct me, that this means that the talk daemon is not running on your machine. Ensure that 'ntalkd' is set to run in /etc/inetd.conf, then kill -HUP inetd. > > BTW, as I do not have a permanent IP address, ppp negotiates it > every time when I dial out to my provider, I wrote in the > /etc/hosts file something like: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 10.0.0.1 vas.tomsk.su vas > > Is this correct or should I have written something different? > What is usually written there if there is no permanent IP > address? You're OK, I think. I'd make sure you can ping and telnet to yourself while you're online, just to make sure talk is connecting properly. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major