Re: talk facility

[Daniel Omondi Otieno <omondi at arcc.or.ke>]

Brain,
I tried your illustration too and still I could'nt .It gives the same error message any more clues.

Dan
> 
> On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 06:44:26PM +0300, Sematimba Noah K wrote:
> > > The qestion is in talk facility in bsdi 4.0 and i get an error that target machine does not recognize us.
> > >
> > > How can it be solved???
> > >
> > > Dan
> > If it is on the same machine make sure that you're using talk
> > user at localhost when you're responding. This should get rid of the problem.
> > I remember as if this is caused by talk doing an ident lookup or something
> > like that when you try to initiate a session. I may be wrong but appending
> > user at localhost in my answer to the request instead of just user or
> > user at domain worked for me.
> 
> Yep, in the past I've had problems with 'talk' if you don't have DNS right.
> 
> Make sure that the IP address of each interface on your box has matching
> reverse and forward DNS. Also, it may be necessary to check that your
> hostname (as reported by 'uname -n') is a fully-qualified domain name, which
> resolves to the IP address of the main interface on your box.
> 
> When I used to use dialup, I seem to remember I had to put a temporary entry
> in /etc/hosts, mapping my hostname to my dynamic IP address, for 'talk' to
> work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian.
> 
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