Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:53:09 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: 'talk' doesn't work! Did it ever? Message-ID: <199509132153.RAA02862@healer.com>
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From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
> On my FreeBSD box at home, the 'talk' command has never worked to talk to
> ...
> problem, it hasn't been fixed yet. Before I start tearing into the
> source, does anyone have any ideas as to what's wrong?
It's been working fine for me on 2.0R and 2.0.5R
The "Checking for Invitation" does occur of either site maintains
a firewall (or router filtering) preventing the sockets from being
opened. I ran into this a few times, but eventually (after modifying
the filter rules) everything worked fine.
The problem also occurs (as you mentioned) when the forward and
reverse DNS lookups do not match in what you report at connect
time vs. the address resolution. There has to be some way
to solve this problem with sites that use dynamic addressing, but
I'll be danged if I've come up with one yet.
-coranth
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