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