talk daemon running but not accepting connections
I have installed talk on centos, turned it on by editing xinetd.d/talk and setting disable=no.
I have restarted xinetd (service xinetd restart) and verified that talk is configured to start (chkconfig --status-all). output from netstat -l | grep -i talk: udp 0 0 *:talk *:* telnet to ports 517 and 518 both indicate CONNECTION REFUSED when attempted from localhost, and CONNECT FAILED from a remote windoze box. "talk user" displays "[ Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused. Press any key... ]──", then "[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]". nothing appears to happen after that. output from iptables -L: Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination what am i missing? shouldn't either port 517 or 518 respond to telnet? what else can i do to get talk running? |
solved my own problem: had to edit xinet/ntalk and set disable=no, not xinet/talk (both files exist).
once i got talk working, i edited xinet/talk and set disable=yes, restarted xinetd, and talk still worked. so... my question is now more academic: what is talk for, if ntalk is the real file? |
Seems like they are alternative tools http://network.terramail.pl/
I believe way back when the 'Well Known Ports' list was being compiled, they were actually 2 different tools: talk only worked locally & you needed ntalk to talk across a network. OTOH, I could be wrong ;) |
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