Thanks for the quick reply!

On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@greshko.com> wrote:

Well, at this point all I can tell is I did this on an F25 VM that I have....

1.  dnf install dictd-server
2.  systemctl enable dictd
3.  systemctl start dictd


This works for me. I didn't use systemctl to enable dictd, so maybe that was my problem before. Now I get the same output as you on systemctl status.

And, FWIW...

[root@f25f ~]# telnet localhost 2628
Trying ::1...
telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 f25f dictd 1.12.1/rf on Linux 4.8.11-300.fc25.x86_64 <auth.mime> <1.5487.1481263254@f25f>
quit
221 bye [d/m/c = 0/0/0; 4.000r 0.000u 0.000s]

Right now I'm still blocked trying to access both localhost and 127.0.0.1, but at least dictd is working.
 

So, I'm guessing at this point there is something in your configuration file or something
else you did to get the failure.

I will check out the config file next. Thanks for your help! I'm still new to Fedora and have been hitting lots of gotchas where I don't know what to do, but then once you get the answers everything runs smoothly :-)