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Date:      Wed, 13 Sep 1995 21:50:35 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
To:        jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 'talk' doesn't work!  Did it ever?
Message-ID:  <199509131950.VAA05413@strider.ibenet.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.950913122125.7385A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 13, 95 12:32:54 pm

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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,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
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