From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 28 17:24:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA06358 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:24:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA06350 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 17:24:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (ppp-110-16.mtl.aei.ca [207.107.110.16]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA17956 for ; Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:23:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3660A1F0.A1C246F4@aei.ca> Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 20:22:56 -0500 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Weird problem with "talk" about an "Unknown host". Both user are logged on the same machine! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message