Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:44:34 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird problem with "talk" about an "Unknown host". Both user are logged on the same machine! Message-ID: <19981129124434.A9959@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <3660A1F0.A1C246F4@aei.ca>; from Malartre on Sat, Nov 28, 1998 at 08:22:56PM -0500 References: <3660A1F0.A1C246F4@aei.ca>
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On Sat 1998-11-28 (20:22), Malartre wrote: > http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/talk.html > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD f00f.org 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 21 > 03:37:08 EST 1998 root@f00f.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/F00F i386 > $ who am I > toto ttyv0 28 nov 20:01 > $ who > toto ttyv0 28 nov 20:01 > elvis ttyv9 28 nov 20:04 > $ talk elvis ttyv9 > talk: f00f.org: Unknown host > > toto try to "talk" with elvis, but the system (whose name is f00f.org) > try to find the host "f00f.org". But f00f.org is the system's name... > Both user did "mesg y". > > What's wrong? Just put f00f.org into your /etc/hosts, and change the order of bind, then hosts to hosts, then bind, in your host.conf. Putting f00f.org to 127.0.0.1 should be ok, but if it has a permanent network card and IP address, put it to that IP address. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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