talkd daemon will not start

[leet_linux_user]

Binary package hint: talkd

1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu.
➜ ~ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
➜ ~

2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy packagename' or by checking in Synaptic.
➜ ~ apt-cache policy talkd
talkd:
  Installed: 0.17-14
  Candidate: 0.17-14
  Version table:
 *** 0.17-14 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
➜ ~

3) What you expected to happen
➜ ~ sudo service openbsd-inetd restart
[sudo] password for chris:
 * Restarting internet superserver inetd
   ...done.
➜ ~ sudo service openbsd-inetd status
 * inetd is running
➜ ~ psgrep talk

USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
chris 1974 0.0 0.0 16868 952 pts/3 S+ 00:39 0:00 talk chris pts/1
chris 25582 0.0 0.0 16872 1220 pts/1 S+ 00:35 0:00 talk chris /dev/pts/2
chris 26179 0.0 0.0 16868 952 pts/2 S+ 00:35 0:00 talk chris pts/1
chris 28041 0.0 0.0 8956 860 pts/4 S+ 00:50 0:00 grep talk
➜ ~

I expected a talk daemon to be running. Those results shown are from me attempting to use talk, but it is not working.

4) What happened instead.

I run

talk chris pts/2

First I see

[No connection yet]

followed by

[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

Then I switch over to pts/3

➜ ~ w
 00:54:11 up 10:07, 8 users, load average: 0.21, 0.34, 0.39
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
chris tty7 :0 14:46 10:07m 25:48 0.38s gnome-session
chris pts/1 :0:S.0 23:28 18:41 0.22s 0.22s /bin/bash
chris pts/2 :0:S.1 23:28 14.00s 1.81s 1.81s /bin/zsh
chris pts/3 :0:S.2 23:28 0.00s 0.17s 0.00s w
chris pts/4 :0:S.3 23:28 1:43 0.28s 0.28s /bin/zsh
chris pts/5 :0:S.4 23:28 57:06 2.02s 2.02s /bin/zsh
chris pts/6 :0:S.5 23:28 55:50 0.34s 0.34s /bin/zsh
chris pts/7 :0:S.6 00:52 1:38 0.15s 0.15s /bin/zsh
➜ ~

I have not received any invitation that I expected.

[leet_linux_user (christopher-lemire)]

The packages used are openbsd-inetd talk talkd not netkit-ntalk