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- From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: talk
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.130642.8252@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:06:42 GMT
- References: <83678@ut-emx.uucp>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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- In article <83678@ut-emx.uucp>, devil@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (The Beast) writes:
-
- > I tried to use 'talk' to converse with a friend in another college.
- > I got the following message:
- > 'Target machine does not recognize us'.
-
- This means simply that talkd on the remote machine did a
- gethostbyaddr() on your machine's address and got a failure indication.
-
- Either the remote machine is broken somehow or whatever nameserver is
- responsible for the relevant .in-addr.arpa zone is misbehaving, or
- (worst case) hasn't been set up.
-
- > If so, how can this situation be circumvented?
-
- The right way to fix it is to fix whatever's wrong. A workable
- substitute is to fix talkd so that if gethostbyaddr() fails, it prints
- the numeric address instead (and in parallel, fix talk to accept
- numeric addresses). This is what I've done, and sometimes when the net
- is flaking out (and thereby breaking the DNS) it's proven useful.
-
- der Mouse
-
- mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
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