On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 06:25:56PM +, 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/