Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 12:25:36 +0700 From: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su> To: ckyuan@elvis.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Message-ID: <AAG5bgo4y0@vas.tomsk.su> References: <199612071356.FAA12178@elvis.net>
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> If your "talk" can work, please let me know. Yes, I tried to follow your advice and "talk" worked. But I did not like the way it was made to work. > Reply to ckyuan@usc.edu I have already sent you a reply. In case you did not receive it, I am forwarding it to you again. Thanks a lot for your help. ------------- 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? > > My environment is just the sams as yours. I met the problem before. > I have only ppp0 and lo0. Could you be so kind to mail me your /etc/sysconfig file to look at? > What network interface associate with 10.0.0.1 ? > It seems none. That's why it shows "can't bind" when talk requested. This means I have guessed correctly. Thank you, you have raised hopes in my breast that some day I shall understand how this damn thing works :-))) > > In /etc/sysconfig defines your offical hostname. > Try to modify /etc/hosts : > > 127.0.0.1 localhost vas.tomsk.su > > and remove vas.tomsk.su from 10.0.0.1 > > This will let ntalk request to go thu localhost but not 10.0.0.1 . > It's also the reason why ping or telnet vas.tomsk.su cannot work. I have just tried to configure /etc/hosts as you advised. Talk works just fine. But for some reason I did not like this solution. It does not seem correct to me, just intuitively. At boot time I have the message "Writing to routing socket: file exists". Somehow I feel it would be more correct to have a special entry in /etc/hosts at least for the system name. I only wish I could associate it with some sort of fake interface (e.g. software emulation of an ethernet card) like it is possible in Windows NT. I would be just happy if there were something like this in FreeBSD. However, I have already borrowed an NE1000 card (old as hills) and will be experimenting with it tomorrow. I shall try to associate it with my hostname. Thank you very much for your help. Hope to hear from you again. ------------- cut here -------------------- --- 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
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