From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 20 18:10:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA13099 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.aros.net (mailhub.aros.net [205.164.111.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA13068 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 18:09:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from terra.aros.net (terra.aros.net [205.164.111.10]) by mailhub.aros.net (8.7.5/Unknown) with ESMTP id TAA14910; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:20:04 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from angio@localhost) by terra.aros.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) id TAA30180; Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:09:55 -0600 From: Dave Andersen Message-Id: <199604210109.TAA30180@terra.aros.net> Subject: Re: TalkD To: khetan@iafrica.com (Khetan Gajjar) Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 19:09:55 -0600 (MDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Khetan Gajjar" at Apr 20, 96 11:02:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 PGP2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does it say this on all machines, or just when you're trying to chat with a Linux or Sun machine? We've had difficulties with both in the past. -Dave Andersen Lo and behold, Khetan Gajjar once said: > > Hi. > > My talkd seems to be doing something rather funny : I can talk to > users on my machine, but as soon as I try and talk out of my machine (i.e > externally), it just says Checking for invitation on callers machine > constantly (i.e. does nothing else!). > > My telnet, ftp, rsh, rlogin & ssh work fine to the machines I am trying to > talk to. > > --- > Khetan Gajjar > Visit at http://www.iafrica.com/~khetan/ > Pipex-Internet Africa Operations > help@iafrica.com or 0800-030-002 > -- 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'."