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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:54:32 -0600
From:      "Micheal Patterson" <micheal@tsgincorporated.com>
To:        "Curtis Vaughan" <curtis@npc-usa.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Opening ports
Message-ID:  <009401c4e469$da027670$4df24243@tsgincorporated.com>
References:  <89CBFC80-5050-11D9-B943-000393934006@npc-usa.com> <621B31FB-5058-11D9-B943-000393934006@npc-usa.com>

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Vaughan" <curtis@npc-usa.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 12:20 PM
Subject: Re: Opening ports


>
> On 17 Dec, 2004, at 09:24, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
>
> > I realized that apparently by default most all ports are closed on my
> > 5.3-Release box. The reason I say this is because besides port 22, 80
> > and 10000 no other port seems to be open (based on a port scan). I
> > just installed postfix and courier-imap and wanted to test ports 25
> > and 110, but they do not respond even though postfix is running, I
> > have enabled the ports in master.cf. Also they are in /etc/services.
> >
> > Looking over documents and checking my install, /etc/rc.firewall is
> > not enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> >
> > I assume I could go through rc.firewall and set it up for those ports
> > I need opened, and enable it in rc.conf, but whereas we have a
> > gatewall/firewall for our company, I don't see a lot of
> > reason for having all the ports closed down on this server. Is there
> > an easy way to enable them all?
> >
> > Curtis
> >
>
> OK, I've got courier-imap running now and it opened port 143, but there
> is still no reply on 25. Which makes me think that the problem isn't
> the fact that ports are closed, but that nothing is listening.
> However, netstat shows:
>
> cod# netstat -na | grep LISTEN
> tcp4       0      0  *.143                  *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0  *.143                  *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp4       0      0  *.80                   *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp4       0      0  *.25                   *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp4       0      0  *.10000                *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp4       0      0  *.22                   *.*
> LISTEN
> tcp6       0      0  *.22                   *.*
> LISTEN
>
> So, something is listening on port 25, but why no response to telnet
> requests?
>
> Curtis
>


I realize that this may sound strange, but do you have an allow in your
hosts.allow file for sendmail? Sendmail now uses wrappers by default as I
recall, and without it, you'll get refused.

--

Micheal Patterson
Senior Communications Systems Engineer
405-917-0600

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