From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 30 21:06:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01301 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA01296 for ; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:06:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id MAA18134 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 12:05:54 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00230 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Nov 1996 21:53:48 +0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Sat, 30 Nov 96 21:53:47 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: "talk" does not work. Please help. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am running FreeBSD 2.1.0, no network, only uucp and user ppp via a modem. 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. 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? What other configs should I look into for the solution of my problem? Thanks a lot. --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912