From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 16:24:27 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 0B0B616A422 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:24:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [216.148.227.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E5143D48 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:24:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([68.80.195.248]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060217162425m1300fq0e9e>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:24:25 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6163B843; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:24:24 -0500 (EST) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bserver.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69349-01; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:24:20 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.214.102] (kbuilt.transpack.com [192.168.214.102]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 197A6B842; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:24:19 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43F5F8AD.50109@allenmyland.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:24:13 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Banning References: <20060217160651.GA22179@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20060217160651.GA22179@skytracker.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at transpack.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org 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 16:24:27 -0000 David Banning wrote: > 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? > It works from the outside world: ken@abbott2 > telnet optexstaging.com 8025 Trying 209.161.205.12... Connected to optexstaging.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 3s1.com ESMTP tmda-ofmipd quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. ken@abbott2 > telnet banning.ca 8025 Trying 209.161.205.12... Connected to banning.ca. Escape character is '^]'. 220 3s1.com ESMTP tmda-ofmipd quit 221 Bye Connection closed by foreign host. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.