Bug#2575: ytalk lies about who you are talking to

["Peter Tobias" <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> Package: ytalk
> Version: 3.0.2-1
>
> Owen (who is using tacitus) told ytalk to talk to richard@chiark;
> however I responded from the account richard@sfere (and the important
> point is that this need not have been the same person as
> richard@chiark, though it was in this case).

That's the normal behaviour.

> Anyway Owen's talk on tacitus accepted this connection, but advertised
> me as being richard@chiark, despite chiark no longer having any role
> in the conversation.

That is indeed a bug. It should be no problem for the ytalk client to
get the real hostname of the other ytalk client.


Thanks,

Peter

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