interesting. I also dial tcp!www.9netics.com!http, but failed. Actually, I cannot even ping it successfully. (other sites such as www.google.com can be pinged on my system.) By the way, if fossil uses another ip, how to find that? 2014-05-26 20:52 GMT-04:00 Skip Tavakkolian : > works here (see below). i wonder if fossil is announcing on a different ip > than you're expecting? > > % 9c dial.c > % 9l -o dial dial.o > % ./dial tcp!www.9netics.com!http > GET / HTTP/1.0 > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Server: Plan9 > Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 00:50:46 GMT > ETag: "364d3v1b" > Content-Length: 2682 > Last-Modified: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:51:43 GMT > Content-Type: text/html > Connection: close > > > > > ... > > > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Nick Owens wrote: > >> yan, >> >> did you try to use packet capture software like wireshark, or snoopy(8) >> on plan 9, to see the packets? >> >> running wireshark on linux, and snoopy on plan 9, will give you insight >> into if the packets reach the other side successfully. >> >> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 08:06:21PM -0400, yan cui wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > 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!!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? >> > >> > >> > Thanks, Yan >> > >> > -- >> > Think big; Dream impossible; Make it happen. >> > > -- Think big; Dream impossible; Make it happen.