From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 6 15:06:11 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA10872 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:06:11 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA10862 for ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:06:02 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA01986; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 00:05:31 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA08363; Mon, 7 Aug 1995 00:05:29 +0200 Message-Id: <199508062205.AAA08363@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem Date: Mon, 07 Aug 1995 00:05:28 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Paul Traina fixed a similar problem with kadmin(d?) from eBones a couple of days ago. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grumble.grondar.za for PGP key