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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 1995 16:04:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Scott Mace <smace@crash.ops.neosoft.com>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: workaround for talk's address problem
Message-ID:  <199508062104.QAA07313@crash.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <18450.807740189@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Aug 6, 95 01:16:29 pm

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> 
> > talk(1) has problems with multi-homed hosts.  To negotiate the
> > connection with the remote peer, it uses the first address as returned
> > by a call to gethostbyname().  This will cause the connection to hang
> 
> NFS has the exact same problem, FWIW.  If there's a more general
> solution, we should go for it.
> 
> 						Jordan
> 

INN uses the full list of ip's returned and will accept connections from
either, but that really doesn't help that much in this situation I think...

	Scott



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