# Dchat

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dchat/140205>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 11, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dchat/140205 "2008-06-11T21:26:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![joakim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dec6dc/32.png) [@joakim](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joakim)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 9:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dchat/140205/1 "2008-06-11T21:26:32Z")

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I’ve got one comoputer on which I start dchats.rb. When I try to connect  
to it with dchatc.rb on another computer, it takes a while and then it  
says:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:736:in `open': druby://fatburen70.fatburen.org:2693 - #<Errno::ETIMEDOUT: Connection timed out - connect(2)> (DRb::DRbConnError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:729:in`each’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:729:in `open' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1189:in`initialize’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1169:in `new' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1169:in`open’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1085:in `method_missing' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1103:in`with\_friend’  
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1084:in `method\_missing’  
from dchatc.rb:37

This is pretty boring and I wonder how to solve it. Thanks!