Re: [expert] Talk Problem

[M. Bull]

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Geoffrey Croxson wrote:

> At 07:14  5/07/99 -0700, you wrote:
> >hi all,
> >
> >using lm 5.3:
> >a friend telnetted into my machine and we tried to use 'talk'.
> >
> >kept getting the following messages:
> >
> >[No connection yet]
> >[Checking for invitation on caller's machine]

I've seen this happen when the local machine has a hosts.deny that blocks
everything, and it is not in its own hosts.allow.