Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 15:53:04 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users), joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Subject: Re: workaround for talk's address problem Message-ID: <199508062253.PAA14454@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Aug 95 00:05:28 %2B0200." <199508062205.AAA08363@grumble.grondar.za>
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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. > >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 ===========================================
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