[TriLUG] ack ... "talk" doesn't work on seawolf

Tom Bryan tbryan at python.net
Sun Aug 19 02:27:26 EDT 2001


> their xinetd config looks similar to telnet, and telnet works fine.
> ok, so i'm still baffled.  any more hints?  and, yes, i've restarted
> xinetd to make sure it picks up any changes in the xinetd.d config
> files.

Random thought: did you change your firewall settings during the install?
Maybe talk and ntalk are listening but the firewall blocks it.

---Tom



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