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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: How to re-activate "talk"
Date: 20 May 1997 08:01:34 GMT
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brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote:

> > Does anyone know where we should start looking to fix "talk"?
> 
> Sounds like a DNS reverse lookup problem.  Talk's very finicky about
> DNS lookups.

Also, not sure whether BSD/OS ever included my fix for talk not
working with multi-homed hosts.  The symptoms are vastly the same,
``Waiting for invitation...''.

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