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 <quanstro@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
>
>