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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: "Talk" problem
Date: 9 Dec 1996 16:39:32 GMT
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Richard Taber <rtaber@umich.edu> wrote:

> Everytime someone at my old high school's server runs the "talk"
> program they get the message "Target machine does not recognize us".

Looks like a DNS reverse lookup problem.

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j