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- From: ccs@aber.ac.uk (Christopher "Jd" Samuel)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: talk: how to fix - "[Checking for invitation...]"?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.164358.7347@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 16:43:58 GMT
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- In article <BuMH54.BLr@grebyn.com>, karl@grebyn.com (Karl A. Nyberg)
- writes:
-
- |> I have several vaxes running Ultrix (4.0 & 4.2) that can talk together
- |> just fine between themselves. However they can't talk to other machines
- |> on the network (locally a Sun4, or remotely also a Sun4, I think). I get
- |> the "[Checking for invitation...]" message when running talk. When running
- |> "otalk", the second machine will get a message from the Talk_Daemon requesting
- |> a connection, but the talk itself will fail with:
- |>
- |> Unable to connect with initiator :
- |> Address family not supported by protocol family (47)]
- |>
- |> How do I fix that? (I'm presuming it's a problem on the VAX/Ultrix side,
- |> since the Suns will gladly talk between themselves).
-
- Actually, it is a Sun problem, as they are running the old style talk
- daemon on port 517, instead of the new style ones which run on port 518.
- Take a look at the manual page for talk, and the lines for talk and ntalk
- (new talk) in /etc/services.
-
- - Chris
-
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