From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 6 02:22:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA20907 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 02:22:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.aros.net ([205.164.111.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA20902 for ; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 02:22:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from angio@localhost) by shell.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) id DAA00360; Sat, 6 Apr 1996 03:23:53 -0700 (MST) From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199604061023.DAA00360@shell.aros.net> Subject: Re: talk not connecting to remote machines. To: jacs@gnome.co.uk (Chris Stenton) Date: Sat, 6 Apr 1996 03:23:53 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, nate@sri.MT.net In-Reply-To: from Chris Stenton at "Apr 6, 96 10:25:59 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lo and behold, Chris Stenton once said: > Ok the machines I have tried and failed on are Linux and ULTRIX V4.2A. > > When I imitate a talk session FROM these machines I get a "talk > connection requested" message on my FreeBSD Box but when I try and > reply all I get is > > > [No connection yet] > [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] > . ... > > I would have thought someone else would have noticed the problem > connecting to Linux or does nobody else talk to Linux users :-) We've noticed the problem as well, but I've always chalked it down to a Linux problem. Linux 'talk' can not converse with FreeBSD talk, SunOS talk, Solaris talk, and (according to you) ULTRIX talk. I haven't tried it on other systems. I believe it to be a Linux problem, though I could be mistaken. -Dave Andersen -- angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual "There are only two industries that refer to thier customers as 'users'."