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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:44:34 +0200
From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za>
To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Weird problem with "talk" about an "Unknown host". Both user are logged on the same machine!
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On Sat 1998-11-28 (20:22), Malartre wrote:
> http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/talk.html
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD f00f.org 2.2.7-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Sat Nov 21
> 03:37:08 EST 1998     root@f00f.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/F00F  i386
> $ who am I
> toto     ttyv0   28 nov 20:01
> $ who
> toto     ttyv0   28 nov 20:01
> elvis    ttyv9   28 nov 20:04
> $ talk elvis ttyv9
> talk: f00f.org: Unknown host
> 
> toto try to "talk" with elvis, but the system (whose name is f00f.org)
> try to find the host "f00f.org". But f00f.org is the system's name...
> Both user did "mesg y".
> 
> What's wrong?

Just put f00f.org into your /etc/hosts, and change the order of bind, then
hosts to hosts, then bind, in your host.conf.

Putting f00f.org to 127.0.0.1 should be ok, but if it has a permanent network
card and IP address, put it to that IP address.

Neil
-- 
Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za

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