From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 05:08:01 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 7251316A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:08:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32CA443D41 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:08:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C08F55CFF; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:08:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 82286-08; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:08:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C505C0F; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:07:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4237BF11.9080005@mac.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:07:29 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline References: <20050316000330.GA84087@thought.org> <20050316004533.GC84161@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050316004533.GC84161@thought.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com 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 05:08:01 -0000 Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: [ ... ] >>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?? You can try telnet'ing to port 25 on the problem host from your other machine by hand and see what happens. However, sendmail really wants valid DNS for mail servers, so changing /etc/hosts probably isn't going going to be enough. Consider using a mailertable entry with [10.0.0.247] to disable MX lookups, rather than a hostname... -- -Chuck