Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 'talk' doesn't work! Did it ever? Message-ID: <Pine.AUX.3.91.950913122125.7385A-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On my FreeBSD box at home, the 'talk' command has never worked to talk to anyone over TCP/IP, but instead just hangs on "[Checking for invitation on callers' machine]". At first I chalked this up to a PPP misconfiguration (since I have dynamic IP assignment, when I was using Linux I had to manually change the hostname to "user??.lightside.com" every time I logged in or else I would have the same problem). But now I just noticed my experimental FreeBSD Pentium at work, which is Ethernetted, has the exact same problem! The source code to talk looks pretty simple, I should be able to track down the problem later today, and see if it's universal or a misconfiguration on my part. Also, my box at home is running 2.0.5-RELEASE but at work it's running "-current" so if there is a problem, it hasn't been fixed yet. Before I start tearing into the source, does anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong? ---Jake Hamby jehamby@lightside.com
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