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

[Steven Lee]

Can you telnet to ports 517 or 518? see if your machine is allowing connections to those ports.

I dont know anything at all about talk, but for troublehsooting networks, I do this all the time with for other applications.

rpjday <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Randy Dees wrote:
>
>> And behold, rpjday spake these words on Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 08:28:15AM -0400:
>> > On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Tom Bryan wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Sunday 19 August 2001 04:47 pm, you wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > 2) talk service on via chkconfig and xinetd: check
>> > >
>> > > /etc/xinetd.d/talk or /etc/xinetd.d/ntalk?  Since
>> > > ls -l /usr/sbin/in.talkd
>> > > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 May 28 13:44 /usr/sbin/in.talkd -> in.ntalkd
>> > > I'm not sure what it means for one of these services to be
>> > > enabled and for the other to be disabled.  Have you tried setting
>> > > them both to "disable = no"?
>> >
>>
>> netstat -an | grep 517  # talk  (UDP)
>> and
>> netstat -an | grep 518  # ntalk (UDP)
>>
>> to determine if either port is being listened to.
>
>ah, now this is odd.  although i've enabled all three of telnet,
>talk and ntalk thru xinetd, netstat shows the entry for telnet
>in "LISTEN" mode (and telnet works nicely, thanks -- no subtle
>digs about ssh, please).
>
>but both talk and ntalk, although they show up in the output of
>netstat, have a blank "State" field at the end of the line.
>i'm not sure what this means.  that they're both running, but
>neither are listening?
>
>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.
>
>rday
>
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