From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 16:13:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 02F5D16A422 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:13:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Erin@Fortenberry.net) Received: from intake.emails-are.us (intake.emails-are.us [66.240.197.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A415F43D46 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:13:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Erin@Fortenberry.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.webs-are.us [127.0.0.1]) by intake.emails-are.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AC3DA843; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from intake.emails-are.us ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vhost.methodent.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72778-05; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:14:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from snkxwefortenbe (chfw02.scripps.com [207.203.254.110]) by intake.emails-are.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5562DA83F; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 08:14:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Erin Fortenberry" To: "'David Banning'" , Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:13:34 -0500 Message-ID: <002601c633dd$1a7349f0$1215450a@ad.ewsad.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcYz3GjBPgukXBiCQTS8W3bADxvI7wAAJZ1g In-Reply-To: <20060217160651.GA22179@skytracker.ca> X-Virus-Scanned: by emails-are.us anti-virus X-Spam-Status: No, score=-102.056 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.543, BAYES_00=-2.599, USER_IN_WHITELIST=-100] X-Spam-Score: -102.056 X-Spam-Level: Cc: Subject: RE: mail port 8025 conundrum X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:13:37 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > David Banning > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:07 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: mail port 8025 conundrum > > I have a strange problem where port 8025 is blocked on my server. > > Trying to connect with telnet, here is the response; > > david$ telnet banning.ca 8025 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > > Yet I host 6 other domains on the same server, and all the > others seems > to be fine; > > david$ telnet optexstaging.com 8025 > Trying 209.161.205.12... > Connected to optexstaging.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 3s1.com ESMTP tmda-ofmipd > quit > > It makes no difference whether I enable the firewall or not. > Strangely I -can- connect to banning.ca via port 25 or 110; > > david$ telnet banning.ca 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to banning.ca. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 3s1.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8p1/8.12.8; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 > 11:06:04 -0500 (EST) > > To my knowledge, there is nothing that stops a connection to > a specific > > The only change to my system is that I registered -all- 7 of > the domain > names with a new outside DNS server. It could be that there is some > stale DNS going on, but DNS would be the same for all ports, would > it not? > > Looking at the erroneous message, I see that banning.ca is > being directed > to 127.0.0.1 - why would that happen? > > Any direction would be helpful. It looks like nothing is bound to port 8025 on 127.0.0.1 (localhost). You can do a sockstat and verify. -Erin