Re: Talk broken?

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

Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>     >> [Couln't bind to control socket : cannot assign requested
>     >> address (99)]
[...]
>  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.

This normally happens when you use the localhost entry for the hostname.
To fix it just add the dummy device, assign an IP number to it (e.g.
one of the 192.168.x.x numbers) and add an entry with your hostname
to /etc/hosts.

Example:
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.20.1    myhostname.foo.bar   myhostname

Talk should work just fine then.


Peter

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