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?
