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From: webb@bass.tcspa.ibm.com (Bill Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: talk problem
Message-ID: <3055@ibmpa.UUCP>
Date: 26 Nov 89 22:53:49 GMT
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> I am receiving the following message when I try to "talk root" or "talk ken"
> 	talk: aixbf01: Can't figure out network address.
> Does this ring any bells out there?
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> Ken Hall - Department Manager         |    Bellnet:  (404) 894-5559
> Office of the Assoc. VP for Bus & Fin |    Bitnet:   khall@gtri01.gatech.edu
> Georgia Institute of Technology       |    Internet: ken@pyr.gatech.edu
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I'd say that for some reason your machine (I assume that its aixbf01)
isn't in its own /etc/hosts file. If you machine isn't networked then 

	127.0.0.1 localhost loopback aixbf01

into /etc/hosts. If you machine is networked then I'd suggest checking
to make sure that the right line is in /etc/hosts and doing a 

	ping aixbf01

to make sure that everything is ok in /etc/hosts. If everything 
checks out ok I'd suggest making sure that the permissions on 
/etc/hosts are ok, as /usr/bin/talk is not setuid, while a lot of
the other tools (ping, rsh, rlogin) are. That's about all I can 
think of without more information.

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The above views are my own, not necessarily those of my employer.
Bill Webb (IBM AWD Palo Alto), (415) 855-4457.
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