On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:25:56PM +0000, b...@0x1bi.net wrote: > >Did you restart inetd after editing inetd.conf? It has to decide what > >ports to listen on when it starts up, which means it isn't going to > >notice edits. > > Yes, I restarted inetd. I still receive the 'Couldn't bind to socket: > Can't assign requested address' > > I'm not attempting to talk to another user on a different host, I'm > attempting to contact a local user, which I'm assuming will not pose > any issues.
I use talk and ytalk [1] regularly on OpenBSD machines, between local users. Do you have a correct entry with the machine hostname (full hostname(1) output) in /etc/hosts? [1] https://www.cambus.net/talk-and-ytalk-nostalgia/
