the firewall here wont answer pings. you could check with netstat on your plan 9 and/or traceroute from your linux system. btw, does your plan 9 cpu run in a vm? also does telnet on the linux system behave the same way as your dial? e.g. $ telnet 564 On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 6:30 PM, yan cui wrote: > interesting. > I also dial tcp!www.9netics.com!http, but failed. Actually, > I cannot even ping it successfully. (other sites such as www.google.comcan 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. >