This may sound obvious but you have the ntalkd running or a firewall
in between? Not sure if either of those may be the issue - but just
noting that the most obvious can be overlooked.

Regards
Nigel


$ grep talkd /etc/inetd.conf
ntalk          dgram   udp     wait    nobody:tty      /usr/libexec/ntalkd
ntalkd

On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:45:43PM +0200, Samuel Hornus wrote:
> 
> HI.
> 
> on my powermacG4. with netbsd-current.
> 
> % mesg
> is y
> 
> and the other guy logged in has 'mesg y' too
> 
> BUT talk does not work :
> [No connection yet]
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
> [Checking for invitation on caller's machine]
> 
> on both sides
> 
> any idea to get it working ?
> 
> thanks in advance !
> 
> -- 
> Samuel.
> 

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