no sound from emacspeak(21.0) + festival(1.95)... localhost not in access list

[Jason Young <virtualguitar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to understand the emacspeak installation
and have not been able to make it work yet.
Specifically, my problem is that no sound comes out
when I navigate a document with emacspeak. Here is
what I'm doing: 

Festival is able to generate audible speech from its
interactive mode, so I'm comfortable that it works. 
I ran it as a server like so:

> festival --server &
(it tells me it's running on port 1314)

then I ran emacspeak, and from within emacspeak I do
M-x emacspeak-remote-connect-to-server
and give it machine 127.0.0.1 (local loopback) 
and port 1314

Then I do C-h t to get the help documentation up, 
and navigate it with C-n and C-p, but no sound is
generated.

The status line says 
"/root/.emacspeak/.hosts: no such directory"
and when I exited emacspeak it said "rejected from
localhost.localdomain not in access list"
(I've also tried this with "localhost"
and "localhost.localdomain" but each machine name
gave me the same result as when I used "127.0.0.1")

However there's nothing about an access list 
(or .hosts or anything) addressed in the installation
guide. 
(http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/install-guide/)
and a search on the emacspeak archives for .hosts or
access list didn't turn up anything.

What do I need to do at this point to get it to work?
Any advice you can offer is much appreciated, thanks!


~ Jason



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