diff -uprk.orig netkit-ntalk-0.17.orig/talk/get_names.c netkit-ntalk-0.17/talk/get_names.c
--- netkit-ntalk-0.17.orig/talk/get_names.c	1999-11-25 08:05:05 +0300
+++ netkit-ntalk-0.17/talk/get_names.c	2002-10-15 13:01:21 +0400
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ char gn_rcsid[] = 
 void
 get_names(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
-	char hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN];
+	char hostname[MAXHOSTNAMELEN] = "localhost";
 	char *his_name, *my_name;
 	char *my_machine_name, *his_machine_name;
 	const char *his_tty;
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ get_names(int argc, char *argv[])
 		}
 		my_name = pw->pw_name;
 	}
-	gethostname(hostname, sizeof (hostname));
 	my_machine_name = hostname;
 	/* check for, and strip out, the machine name of the target */
 	names = strdup(argv[1]);