From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 14:55:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA27886 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:55:26 -0700 Received: from healer.com (healer-gw.Empire.Net [205.164.80.204]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA27877 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 14:55:20 -0700 Received: (from gryphon@localhost) by healer.com (8.6.11/8.6.9.1) id RAA02862; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:53:09 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:53:09 -0400 From: Coranth Gryphon Message-Id: <199509132153.RAA02862@healer.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, jehamby@lightside.com Subject: Re: 'talk' doesn't work! Did it ever? Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk From: Jake Hamby > 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 ------------------------------------------+------------------------+ Coranth Gryphon | "Faith Manages." | | - Satai Delenn | Phone: 603-598-3440 Fax: 603-598-3430 +------------------------+ USMail: 11 Carver St, Nashua, NH 03060 Disclaimer: All these words are yours, except Europa...