Date: Wed, 4 Dec 96 21:00:01 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <ABXFOfo4F0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961202115846.2295C-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> > 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.
It is NOT commented out in /etc/inetd.conf
> > 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.
The following works:
ping localhost
telnet localhost
This DOES NOT work:
ping vas.tomsk.su
telnet vas.tomsk.su
I think this is where the problem is. There is no route and no
interface for 10.0.0.1
But I have no idea how I could tune the appropriate interface.
I have tun and sl devices compiled into the kernel but I have
only dynamic IP address so I cannot have something like
ifconfig_tun0 in my /etc/sysconfig. Or can I?
Just look what I have in the network section of /etc/sysconfig
--------------------- cut here ------------------
######################### Start Of Netconfig Section #######################
hostname=vas.tomsk.su
[...]
network_interfaces="lo0"
ifconfig_lo0="inet localhost"
static_routes="loopback"
route_loopback="${hostname} localhost"
[...]
######################### End Of Netconfig Section #######################
--------------------- cut here ------------------
I would very much appreciate any input especially from those
people who do not have a permanent IP address and no local
network. How do you tune your /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig?
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