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Bug 2641

Summary: ytalk doesn't seem to work at all.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Benjamin Kahn <gordian>
Component: ytalkAssignee: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Benjamin Kahn 1999-05-07 20:53:31 UTC 
I got these messages while trying to connect to someone via
YTALK.  They were on the local network with messages on.
They couldn't connect back to me, and this was the garbage
in the syslogs.  I believe they were using a vanilla redhat
5.2.  The logs are from my machine (vanilla redhat 6.0)

==> /var/log/messages <==
May  7 16:48:33 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): unintelligible packet

==> /var/log/secure <==
May  7 16:48:33 dhcp78 in.talkd[6198]: connect from
207.92.123.78

==> /var/log/messages <==
May  7 16:48:35 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): bad protocol version 0
May  7 16:49:10 dhcp78 last message repeated 7 times
May  7 16:49:20 dhcp78 last message repeated 2 times
May  7 16:49:22 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): bad protocol version 2
May  7 16:49:43 dhcp78 last message repeated 5 times
May  7 16:49:48 dhcp78 inetd[377]: /usr/sbin/tcpd: exit
signal 0xb
May  7 16:49:48 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): unintelligible packet
May  7 16:49:50 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): bad protocol version 0
May  7 16:50:15 dhcp78 last message repeated 5 times
May  7 16:50:19 dhcp78 talkd[6198]: dhcp78.cybersites.com
(207.92.123.78): bad protocol version 2
Comment 1 Benjamin Kahn 1999-05-29 15:55:59 UTC 
This is really an annoying problem.  Can we have a status update?  I
just tried it on another redhat 6.0 box with the same problem.  I had
to kill the process because the xterm froze.  TALK works, however.

------- Email Received From  Jeff Johnson <jbj> 05/29/99 13:24 -------
Comment 2 Alan Cox 1999-06-19 22:37:59 UTC 
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2799 ***