From: mitch@spuddy.uucp (Mitchum Dsouza) Subject: Re: [Q] talk: Host name lookup failure Date: 7 May 1993 10:41:55 GMT
> Hi Linux Users,
>
> i have a problem with 'talk' that i can't deal with.
>
> All i can get from 'talk' is:
>
> talk: askania: Host name lookup failure
>
> And all i can get from 'ntalkd' is:
>
> May 6 17:42:26 askania talkd[177]: recv: Socket operation on non-socket
> May 6 17:42:27 askania last message repeated 112 times
>
> I think i have setup my /etc/hosts in the right way and i have tcpip in
> the kernel (.099pl9).
>
> Can someone plaese help me.
>
Hi,
set up a file called /etc/host.conf with the lines
order hosts,bind
multi
in it. This will then allow talk to resolve the hostname. Note because of byte
ordering you will not be alble to talk to a Sun, but will be able to talk to a
Dec for example. Read your SunOS manual if you don't believe me.
You should not run ntalkd manually. Insteayou should have an entry in your
/etc/inetd.conf file saying
ntalk dgram udp wait root /etc/ntalkd ntalkd
assuming that ntalk lives in /etc
and also a line in /etc/services that says
ntalk 518/udp
Mitch
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