Thank you Kevin. It was the firewall. I looked at the example you sent me and it finally dawned on me that 37588 and 37589 are ports. I turned off the firewall and talk worked. I fixed the firewall, turned it back on and now talk works. Thank you -- In 08 vote for a crook you can trust. Del Boy for President. http://www.ofah.net On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Kevin wrote: > Make sure inetd is actually waking it up when the socket is tickled. > > # talk kevin > (Then, on another terminal...) > # netstat -a | grep talk > udp 0 0 *:ntalk *:* > udp 0 0 localhost:37588 localhost:ntalk ESTABLISHED > udp 0 0 hangar:37589 hangar:ntalk ESTABLISHED --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss