From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 00:45:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B9D616A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:45:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1434D43D46 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:45:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2G0jYgs084296; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:45:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10/Submit) id j2G0jX6w084295; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:45:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:45:33 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Charles Swiger Message-ID: <20050316004533.GC84161@thought.org> References: <20050316000330.GA84087@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 18 years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: "Connection refused" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:45:35 -0000 On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > I must have bumped into this before, but it still stumps me. > > What would my sendmail on sage/ns1.thought.org get a > > "Connection refused" from my major server, tao.thought.org? > > Mail is queued in ns1. > > DNS for that address is broken, so sendmail on the other machine is > unable to get a valid a record to make a connection, so you get > "connection refused": > tao is on my private 10.0.0.247 IP. I *have* added ns1.thought.org to my /etc/mail/access file and did a "# make maps"; I also reinitialized sendmail. Still get "Connection refused" /etc/hosts* andn /etc/resolv.conf look good. What else?? gary > 5-pi% dig tao.thought.org. > ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> tao.thought.org. > ;; global options: printcmd > ;; Got answer: > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21895 > ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0 > > ;; QUESTION SECTION: > ;tao.thought.org. IN A > > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: > thought.org. 600 IN SOA ns1.thought.org. > hostmaster.thought.org. 2005021201 3600 300 2419200 3600 > > -- > -Chuck > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix