On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Stefan Sieg <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 ? > > $ cat /etc/hosts # $OpenBSD: hosts,v 1.11 2002/09/26 23:35:51 krw Exp $ # # Host Database # # RFC 1918 specifies that these networks are "internal". # 10.0.0.0 10.255.255.255 # 172.16.0.0 172.31.255.255 # 192.168.0.0 192.168.255.255 # ::1 localhost.my.domain localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost.my.domain localhost ::1 anubis.my.domain anubis 127.0.0.1 anubis.my.domain anubis Attempting all variations of "talk user@anubis", and "talk user@localhost" also results in the "Couldn't bind" error.
