From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 06:47:17 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 5006416A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:47:17 +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 A944743D54 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:47:16 +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 j2G6lFTO085217; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.1/8.12.10/Submit) id j2G6lFmq085216; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20050316064715.GA85186@thought.org> References: <20050316000330.GA84087@thought.org> <20050316004533.GC84161@thought.org> <4237BF11.9080005@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4237BF11.9080005@mac.com> 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 06:47:17 -0000 On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:07:29AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > 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... > This is strange; I just allowed telnet in /etc/inetd.conf and reinitialized; from here on sage/ns1, this. telnet tao 25 Trying 10.0.0.247... telnet: connect to address 10.0.0.247: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Could I be missing something in rc.conf? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix