the first post on this thread mentioned that dial was timing out. it might be worth running aux/listen1 or run httpd to see if a connection on another port can be established.
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:38 AM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net>wrote: > > I used a program to dial from one system to another system, but > > it gives a connection time out error. I have searched on Internet for a > > long time and cannot get a solution. Could you please provide some > > suggestions or hints? Basically, one system is Linux based system with rc > > shell installed (we call it A). The other one is a auth+cpu+file server > > (we call it B). On B, I have used fossil/conf command to listen > tcp!*!564. > > On A, I executed dial tcp!<B's ip address>!564, but it reports a time out > > error after waiting some time. Results are the same when A is a plan9 > > terminal. By the way, I can ping A to B successfully. What could be the > > possible problems? > > fossil will not respond if the message is not 9p. > > - erik > >
