Package: netstd I originally posted this as a question to debian-users, but did no receive any responses. My apologies if this problem is a result my own ignorance -- if so, it should be documented in talk.1.
1. Both ytalk and talk work talking on the same machine. 2. Neither ytalk nor talk will talk to other machines. 3. talk just sits (no talk request is transmitted), ytalk prints an find_daemon: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused sendit: recv() failed Connection refused What a helpful error message. 4. mesg has been set to `y', so that's not it. 5. I can receive talk requests from other machines, but cannot accept them. 6. The machines I am trying to talk to are an OSF/1 2.1 machine, a Solaris 2.4 machine, and a Linux box running RedHat 3.0. The RedHat box also has the same problem. I'm aware of the various flavors of talk, but ytalk should be able to talk to most of them. Actually, Linux `talk' should be able to talk to all common flavors of talk. I'm connected to the internet via PPP with dynamic addressing, and I am using IP forwarding and masquerading (so there is also a local ethernet). Kernel version 2.0.10.
