ntalkd[8107]: Bad protocol version 214

[Severus]

Hi,

One of my servers syslog is being fluded with the ntalkd messages. Can anyone help me to stop this and tell why this message is comming?

ntalkd[8107]: Bad protocol version 214

Thanks,

-- Faisal

[Sudeesh]

Hi,

Though I dont know much about ntalkd, from the internet search made I understand ntalkd is a programme that allow users to have text chats.

Inetd entry for the daemon in /etc/inetd.conf will be the following

ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/ntalkd ntalkd

The error message you mentioned may be generated due to a wrong configuration entry in /etc/inetd.conf or due to version issues. If you are not using ntalkd for chat hash above mentioned entry from conf file and restart your system (or just reread conf file by inetd -c).

Following link will give some more details..
http://docs.cup.hp.com/en/B9106-90008/talkd.1M.html

Hope this helps

Sudeesh

[Bob_Vance]

Somebody may be trying to probe your system -- I doubt that anyone is simply trying to chat }>|

Pine3 ## grep talk /etc/services
talk 517/udp # conversation
ntalk 518/udp # new talk, conversation

Comment out the 'talk" line(s) in /etc/inetd.conf:

Pine3 ## grep talk /etc/inetd.conf
##20041125jrv## ntalk dgram udp wait root /usr/lbin/ntalkd ntalkd

Then slap inetd:

Pine3 ## inetd -c