[99923] in RedHat Linux List
RE: help needed with talk
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Soffen, Matthew)
Tue Nov 17 15:40:53 1998
From: "Soffen, Matthew" <msoffen@iso-ne.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, Guy Warner <gcw@dcs.st-and.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 15:41:55 -0500
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Does it work if you talk to someone else on the same system (not on a
different machine) ?
Also, have you checked the messages files on each system to see if there
is anyother info that you could gleen ?
> ----------
> From: Guy Warner[SMTP:gcw@dcs.st-and.ac.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 1:54 PM
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: help needed with talk
>
> Hi.
>
> I am trying to establish a talk connection with a sun (I have tried
> against
> both SunOS4 and Solaris) and am failing. I was hoping someone might
> have had
> experience of fixing this problem.
>
> I have the redhat 5.2 ytalk and ntalk packages installed and use NIS.
> The talk
> and ntalk protocols are both allowed in my inetd.conf and I have
> established
> that my tcpwrappers are not effecting this. The effect of typing
> talk username@sunmachine
> is to get the following messages appearing
> [Error on read from talk daemon : Connection refused (111).
> Press any key...]
> Using
> tcpdump host sunmachine
> whilst trying to establish the connection yields
> sunmachine > linuxmachine: icmp: sunmachine udp port ntalk
> unreachable (DF)
>
> If I then log on to the sunmachine and trying to talk to my linuxbox I
> get the
> following error
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Guy Warner
>
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