From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 12:48:16 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA23954 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:48:16 -0700 Received: from strider.ibenet.it (root@[194.179.130.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA23938 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 12:47:51 -0700 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA05413; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:50:35 +0200 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199509131950.VAA05413@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: 'talk' doesn't work! Did it ever? To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:50:35 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 13, 95 12:32:54 pm Reply-To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1073 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Jake Hamby (Wed Sep 13 21:32:54 1995): > 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 ... > just noticed my experimental FreeBSD Pentium at work, which is > Ethernetted, has the exact same problem! ... > problem, it hasn't been fixed yet. Before I start tearing into the > source, does anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong? Check your network configuration (netstat -nr). talk always worked on FBSD, the 1st thing that cpomes to mind is your default gateway. Also, look for a line similar to: 194.179.130.1 127.0.0.1 UGH 2 76803 lo0 - - so that requests for your own machine don't go to the network and use the loopback instead. This problem belongs to -questions mailing list. Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY