On 2012-03-27 17:00, Chris Zakelj wrote:
Overview... because something between my laptop and home has a nasty
habit
of eating IM messages, I'm trying to get talkd(8) running so I can
use SSH
to talk with family while away. However, something's not right.
Base info:
$ uname -a
OpenBSD zzzz.dyndns.org 4.4 GENERIC#1021 i386
(yes, I know it's old... I just haven't seen any errata that affect
what
I'm doing)
$ cat /etc/inetd.conf | grep ntalk
ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/ntalkd
ntalkd
$ netstat -a | grep talk
udp 0 0 *.ntalk *.*
$ who
czakelj ttyp0 Mar 27 10:11 (w.x.y.z)
testuser ttyp1 Mar 27 10:13 (w.x.y.z)
$ talk testuser
.
.
-------
.
.
talk: Couldn't bind to control socket: Can't assign requested address
$
So near as I can tell, ntalk(8) is being started at boot, it is
running,
but something won't let it connect with itself. pf(4) is NOT running
on
this box (the firewall is upstream). Suggestions?
do you have a proper entry in /etc/hosts ?
