Re: Talk broken?

["Karl M. Hegbloom" <karlheg@bittersweet.or.us>]

>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Jensen <gerry@blue.intele.net> writes:

    Gerald> On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
    >> Hi all,
    >> 
    >> I don't seem to be able to use talk at all.  Every attempt just
    >> gives the error message:
    >> 
    >> [Couln't bind to control socket : cannot assign requested
    >> address (99)]

    Gerald> I experienced something similar.  I *think* it was caused
    Gerald> by changes to the 1.3.* kernel (when they changed the
    Gerald> /proc filesystem).  This was my problem: I assigned my
    Gerald> machine some hostname, then connected to my PPP or SLIP
    Gerald> server which would assign me a different IP address (and
    Gerald> hostname).  This conflict was what was confusing and
    Gerald> killing talk.  I *think* that with earlier kernels, talk
    Gerald> would function correctly even if the hostname assigned to
    Gerald> the machine, and the hostname assigned by the PPP/SLIP
    Gerald> server was different.

 Talk is broken for stock Slackware 3.0 kernel 1.2.13 also; same error
mess; about not being able to bind control socket 99.  I haven't found
a fix yet.

karlheg@teleport.com