From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 6 15:53:06 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id PAA14464 for current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:53:06 -0700 Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA14454 ; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 15:53:04 -0700 Message-Id: <199508062253.PAA14454@freefall.cdrom.com> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost.cdrom.com didn't use HELO protocol To: Mark Murray cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 95 00:05:28 +0200." <199508062205.AAA08363@grumble.grondar.za> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 15:53:04 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" 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. That was me. I believe it only works with tcp sockets. Garrett would know for sure. > >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 -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================