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Date:      Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:22:56 -0500
From:      Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Weird problem with "talk" about an "Unknown host". Both user are logged on the same machine!
Message-ID:  <3660A1F0.A1C246F4@aei.ca>

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$ uname -a
FreeBSD f00f.org 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 21
03:37:08 EST 1998     root@f00f.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/F00F  i386
$ who am I
toto     ttyv0   28 nov 20:01
$ who
toto     ttyv0   28 nov 20:01
elvis    ttyv9   28 nov 20:04
$ talk elvis ttyv9
talk: f00f.org: Unknown host

toto try to "talk" with elvis, but the system (whose name is f00f.org)
try to find the host "f00f.org". But f00f.org is the system's name...
Both user did "mesg y".

What's wrong?
-- 
[Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/]

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