Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!cnh5730 From: cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (Charles Herrick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: HmmMMmmMMmmmmm.... Message-ID: Date: 16 May 91 13:48:31 GMT References: <8587@umd5.umd.edu> Sender: usenet@helios.TAMU.EDU Organization: Human Race Lines: 28 In-reply-to: matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu's message of 15 May 91 21:57:27 GMT In article <8587@umd5.umd.edu> matthews@lewhoosh.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) writes: has anyone else had problems with using 'talk' to machines around the Internet? yep. I don't claim that this is true in your case, but my NeXT can't talk to my professor's SUN SPARC 1+ which is running SUNOS 4.1. The problem? The version of "talk" in shipping with SUNOS 4.1 is not the latest version of "talk". Some of the sys-admins at campus have upgraded the versions of "talk" on their SUNs... by the way, the NeXT uses the latest version. Specifically, silver.ucs.indiana.edu and my machine really hate talking to each other quite frequently. I get errors such as port already in use, some sort of timeout, 'checking for invitation on caller's machine,' and so forth. The check for invitation is normal. and later writes.. I feel a reboot coming..... Sometimes there's no other way to reset those kernel data structures in RAM!! go for it! (;-} -- "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche