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Benjamin John Walter (ben@tsunami.demon.co.uk) wrote:
:: I'm having some problems with TALK under linux using Demon's slip service.
:: Whenever I try and establish a talk session with any machine other
:: than my : own I get a major problem, ytalk returns the error message:-

: This sounds like you have your /etc/hosts configured something like
: this:

: 127.0.0.1	localhost	acme

: Using 'acme' as an alias for localhost causes talk to fail when you
: try to reach another host (you can still talk to yourself).  So, if
: you remove that alias talk will begin to work.  However, you might
: well be using some software that relies on being able to talk to
: 'acme' when you are off-line... to get around this (please someone,
: tell me a better way to do it), I configured the dummy interface with
: my IP address and then added a route to 'tsunami.demon.co.uk' via
: dummy.

: Everything now works all of time.  Although, of course, your mileage
: may vary ;-)

You may be able to do this in a cleaner manner with diald-0.7, which should
be on src.doc.ic.ac.uk as
/packages/linux/sunsite.unc-mirror/system/Network/serial/diald-0.7.tar.gz

Having said that, the whole talk program needs rewriting.  Does anybody know
of a good substitute (other than IRC :-)

-Dom

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