On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Nigel Reed wrote:

> This may sound obvious but you have the ntalkd running or a firewall
> in between? Not sure if either of those may be the issue - but just
> noting that the most obvious can be overlooked.

oups !!!
NetBSD is good to learn UNIX, it doesn't what you haven't told it to do !
the talk line in inetd.conf was still commented...

the inetd man page says to send SIGHUP signal to it to get it reading its
conf file again. I did `kill 1 (inetd pid)` and got a violent crash  :-(

but talk now works

thanks a lot !

-- 
Samuel.