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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