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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: talk Date: 14 May 1997 13:32:18 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 16 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5lcbci$rdd@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <E9zpAx.Esp@nonexistent.com> <5l7of4$5nk@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40838 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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). Could it be an endian'ness problem ? I know some versions of talk have problems. Our old MIPS machines can't talk to our sparc stations, and give exactly the message you mention. David.