Very Computer

I am using Slackware 2.2 with linux kernel 1.2.8 and whenever I try to intiate
a talk session with anyone (even myself), or reply to someones talk request I
get the following error message:

        [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99)]

When I try to do the same thing using ytalk I get the following message:

                 ##############################################
                 #                Ytalk Error                 #
                 #                                            #
                 #  No talk daemon on planitia.*com.net   #
                 #         No such file or directory          #
                 ##############################################

I am pretty sure that everything is set up correctly in /etc/services and
/etc/inetd.conf since I have compared them to several working systems and found
nothing to be different. Any help on this error would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

: I am using Slackware 2.2 with linux kernel 1.2.8 and whenever I try to intiate
: a talk session with anyone (even myself), or reply to someones talk request I
: get the following error message:

:       [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99)]

Do you have your IP address well configured? If you don't have a connection
to a LAN or the Internet then use lo0 as your primary interface and give
your host 127.0.0.1 as its IP address.

Good luck.

E.-

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Eloy A. Paris
Allen-Bradley de Venezuela

"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to
change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

Reinhold Niebuhr "The Serenity Prayer"