Kent West wrote: > My "/etc/inetd.conf file looks like: > . . . > talk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.talkd > #<off># > ntalk dgram udp wait nobody.tty /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/in.ntalkd > . . . Is "#<off>#" in front of the ntalk line? The wrapping of the text makes this difficult to parse. IIRC you need ntalk enabled. You can always run tcpdump on the interface being used to see what port the talk program is trying to connect to (that's how I found I needed ntalk also).
As someone else said, make sure "msg n" hasn't been run by any of the users you're trying to talk with. > My "/etc/hosts.deny" looks like: > ALL: PARANOID > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 4.16.229.105 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.219.10 : DENY > ALL: 150.252.128.10 : DENY > ALL: 4.16.229.149 : DENY This is not correct. You need to remove " : DENY" from the end of each line. The second semicolon is used to specify a shell script to run, not to specify a "target", which is what I presume you're trying to do. Any host that matches these rules will already be denied because this is the hosts.deny file. See hosts_access(5) for more info.
