[techtalk] FW: why talk didn't work

[m20bi]

The mystery explained. Thanks to all that lent a helping hand! Barbara

-----Original Message-----

'talk' is running now!  Had a few people at the kernel-panic.org LUG
installfest working on my machine, most coming to the same frustrating
conclusion that I did: it doesn't work and it should.

However, a guy named Jim said to try commenting out the entry in 
/etc/hosts.deny and it worked!  From there, I back traced the problem
to .... me!  In /etc/hosts, I had an entry:
  127.0.0.1   localhost.localdomain  localhost

And in /etc/hosts.allow:
  all : localhost

Which does a translation from localhost to a number back to a unique
name ... and gets localhost.localdomain, so it fails the allow test.

To get it working, I changed the hosts entry to:
  127.0.0.1   localhost  localhost.localdomain

Now why do I have localhost.localdomain you may wonder...
Well, at some point, one of the almost-open-source projects
I'm working on made reference to it in a regression test.

Thanks for the responses and the assistance.  Case closed.

-- Rick