program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk daemon

[Rotariu Bogdan]

paste me netstat -aup
and do
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport talk -j ACCEPT
iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport ntalk -j ACCEPT
then try talk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Didier Casse" <didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg>
To: "Rotariu Bogdan" <bogdan at alterox.ro>
Cc: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: Re: program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from talk
daemon


> On 19/02/04, at 18:00 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro> wrote:
>
> > do
> > mesg y
> > then
> > talk root or what is your logged user and paste
> > to a mail what says
>
>
> it says:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------
> [No connection yet]
>
>
> "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any key"
>
> and then
>
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------
>
> but no user actually receives the talk request as it should be!
>
>
> PS: everybody has "mesg y"! And "write user" works fine w/o any problems!
>
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Didier.
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Didier Casse" <didierbe at sps.nus.edu.sg>
> > To: "Rotariu Bogdan" <bogdan at alterox.ro>
> > Cc: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:47 PM
> > Subject: Re: Re: program talk doesn't work on fc1-> Error on read from
talk
> > daemon
> >
> >
> > > On 19/02/04, at 23:33 +0800, Didier Casse
<didierbeATspsdotnusdotedudotsg>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 19/02/04, at 16:42 +0200, Rotariu Bogdan <bogdan at alterox.ro>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > you need to chkconfig talk on and chkconfig ntalk on
> > > > > service xinetd restart
> > > > > that should do it
> > > > > and check if there are no rules that block ports 517-518 UDP
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > That is precisely what I thought of doing a
> > > >
> > > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 talk on
> > > > /sbin/chkconfig --level 345 ntalk on
> > > >
> > > > /sbin/service xinetd restart
> > > >
> > > > and still the same old error message from talk:
> > > >
> > > > i.e
> > > >
> > > > "Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused... press any
key"
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Oh yeah an  nmap -sU myhost reveals:
> > >
> > > (The 1470 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
> > > PORT      STATE SERVICE
> > > 68/udp    open  dhcpclient
> > > 111/udp   open  rpcbind
> > > 123/udp   open  ntp
> > > 137/udp   open  netbios-ns
> > > 138/udp   open  netbios-dgm
> > > 518/udp   open  ntalk
> > > 784/udp   open  unknown
> > > 32768/udp open  omad
> > >
> > > Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 6.897
seconds
> > >
> > >
> > > As suspected nothing blocks port 518/udp :-/
> > >
> > > Any other idea of how to get that %@^&^ talk program to run properly?
:-)
> > >
> > >
> > > With kind regards,
> > >
> > > Didier.
> > >
> > > ---
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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