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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: talk Date: 12 May 1997 18:44:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5l7of4$5nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E9zpAx.Esp@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40797 nathan@senate.org (Nathan Dorfman) wrote: > For some reason, talk will not work. ntalkd is in my inetd.conf file, > but when I try to talk another user on my system, I get this message: > [Checking for invitation on caller's machine] I guess your DNS setup is wrong (or you don't use DNS, and your /etc/hosts doesn't contain the FQDN or such). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)