On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Chris Zakelj <c.zak...@ieee.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Stefan Sieg <stefan.s...@gmx.de> 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. > > Wanted to put my resolution in here since Stephan's hosts note got me looking at other names, and it'll (hopefully) help list searches... in a former life, this was my public facing webserver. $ cat /etc/myname oldname.dyndns.org appended "127.0.0.1 oldname.dyndns.org oldname" to /etc/hosts, and now it's working perfectly.
