From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 7 22:13:08 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA28314 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mpeks.tomsk.su (mpeks.tomsk.su [193.124.185.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id WAA28284 for ; Sat, 7 Dec 1996 22:12:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mpeks.tomsk.su (8.6.11/8.6.9) with UUCP id NAA25864; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 13:11:23 +0700 Received: (from victor@localhost) by vas.tomsk.su (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA00980; Sun, 8 Dec 1996 12:25:37 +0700 To: ckyuan@elvis.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <199612071356.FAA12178@elvis.net> Message-ID: Organization: Tomsk Region Education Department From: "Victor A. Sudakov" Date: Sun, 8 Dec 96 12:25:36 +0700 X-Mailer: BML [UNIX Beauty Mail v.1.39] Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help. Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If your "talk" can work, please let me know. Yes, I tried to follow your advice and "talk" worked. But I did not like the way it was made to work. > Reply to ckyuan@usc.edu I have already sent you a reply. In case you did not receive it, I am forwarding it to you again. Thanks a lot for your help. ------------- cut here -------------------- > > I would very much appreciate any input especially from those > > people who do not have a permanent IP address and no local > > network. How do you tune your /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig? > > My environment is just the sams as yours. I met the problem before. > I have only ppp0 and lo0. Could you be so kind to mail me your /etc/sysconfig file to look at? > What network interface associate with 10.0.0.1 ? > It seems none. That's why it shows "can't bind" when talk requested. This means I have guessed correctly. Thank you, you have raised hopes in my breast that some day I shall understand how this damn thing works :-))) > > In /etc/sysconfig defines your offical hostname. > Try to modify /etc/hosts : > > 127.0.0.1 localhost vas.tomsk.su > > and remove vas.tomsk.su from 10.0.0.1 > > This will let ntalk request to go thu localhost but not 10.0.0.1 . > It's also the reason why ping or telnet vas.tomsk.su cannot work. I have just tried to configure /etc/hosts as you advised. Talk works just fine. But for some reason I did not like this solution. It does not seem correct to me, just intuitively. At boot time I have the message "Writing to routing socket: file exists". Somehow I feel it would be more correct to have a special entry in /etc/hosts at least for the system name. I only wish I could associate it with some sort of fake interface (e.g. software emulation of an ethernet card) like it is possible in Windows NT. I would be just happy if there were something like this in FreeBSD. However, I have already borrowed an NE1000 card (old as hills) and will be experimenting with it tomorrow. I shall try to associate it with my hostname. Thank you very much for your help. Hope to hear from you again. ------------- cut here -------------------- --- Victor A. Sudakov E-mail: victor@vas.tomsk.su Center of Information Technologies FidoNet: 2:5005/49 Tomsk Region Education Department Telephone: +7 3822 224916 Tomsk, Russian Federation Telefax: +7 3822 225912