When I switched the servers around, I forgot to edit /etc/hosts which had my server name with the old IP address. Took a whole day just to find that ! :)
Thanks for the reply anyway ! Matthew On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > matthew tebbens wrote: > > > > After switching my servers(2) around I now get the following message > > when I try to talk with anyone: > > > > [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). > > > > Why ? What can I do to fix it.... > > I'm sure it just a configuration error as I didn't change anything else. > > Ports in the range 1-1024 can only be bound by root. This is a security > feature. I'm not sure why talk would try to use port 99. Perhaps the > exe was really supposed to be set-user-id root. > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .