Bug#4098: problems with talk

[Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@charcoal.eg.bucknell.edu>]

Package: netstd

I originally posted this as a question to debian-users, but did no
receive any responses.  My apologies if this problem is a result my
own ignorance -- if so, it should be documented in talk.1.

1. Both ytalk and talk work talking on the same machine.
2. Neither ytalk nor talk will talk to other machines.
3. talk just sits (no talk request is transmitted), ytalk prints an

   find_daemon: recv() failed
   Connection refused

   sendit: recv() failed
   Connection refused

   sendit: recv() failed
   Connection refused

   What a helpful error message.

4. mesg has been set to `y', so that's not it.
5. I can receive talk requests from other machines, but cannot accept
   them.
6. The machines I am trying to talk to are an OSF/1 2.1 machine,
   a Solaris 2.4 machine, and a Linux box running RedHat 3.0.  The
   RedHat box also has the same problem.

I'm aware of the various flavors of talk, but ytalk should be able to
talk to most of them.  Actually, Linux `talk' should be able to talk
to all common flavors of talk.

I'm connected to the internet via PPP with dynamic addressing, and I
am using IP forwarding and masquerading (so there is also a local
ethernet).  Kernel version 2.0.10.