Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 23:01:59 -0400 From: Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@pobox.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Why isn't localhost used by talk? Message-ID: <200007130302.XAA03941@home.my.domain>
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Local to local talk doesn't work if the hostname for the box doesn't
match any an ip on any interface. Although this sounds wierd, consider
a non-dedicated ppp link. Although you can get around this problem with
'talk user@localhost', POLA would say talk should default to localhost.
I couldn't think of any good reason why this shouldn't be the case.
Patch follows.
Joe
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*** get_names.c.orig Wed Jul 12 22:38:16 2000
--- get_names.c Wed Jul 12 21:52:17 2000
***************
*** 86,91 ****
--- 86,92 ----
;
if (*cp == '\0') {
/* this is a local to local talk */
+ strcpy(my_machine_name,"localhost");
his_name = argv[1];
his_machine_name = my_machine_name;
} else {
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--
Joseph Jacobson <jacobson@pobox.com> Finger for PGP
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