point-to-point problem with speak_freely

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Nope, his sf-ans file is there and executes properly, or at least it
executes. I have examined its contents, and it seems to be a domain name
translation of my own IP, something or other ending with .termserve" as I
recall. The -b switch specifies a .au file to return to the caller in the
event the local site is already engaged in a connection, and in fact Lee
is hearing that busy.au file in response to his execution of sf-ans.

I have made security on my own system, and I temporarily loosened them
thinking that perhaps I was denying him access to my own system, but it
made no difference. Both his version and my version of speak_freely are
the most recent CVS versions and they both work correctly on the
reflector.

Here is another strange clue though: after we each run our scripts to run
sfspeaker, and before we do anything else, neither of has an sf-ans
file. After I connect to him with sfmike, he has one that appears
correct. when he executes it, he gets the busy.au file, which is a
standard phone company busy signal, and on my system an sf-ans file is
created, but it appears wrong. In place of a domain name for the caller,
it contains "localhost". I am surprised to find that one has been created
at all on my system, but doubly surprised that it contains localhost as
the domain name.

Is anybody using speak_freely for user to user connections to your
knowledge? I would be assured if I knew it worked that way for others,
which means there would be hope I could make it do so too.

Any more guesses? I am drawing a blank.

Chuck


 On 6
Apr 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi Chuck:  I am not positive about this but it looks to me as though
> the ./sf-ans file which is getting created when you connect to him on
> his system is being rm'd by that line before his system gets down to
> the new sfspeaker so there isn't one for him to connect back to you.
> Just a guess though.  I am not sure just how the -v flag operates so I
> can't comment on that.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> 

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