Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 14:16:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Repeated connections to port 25 with firewall Message-ID: <20040524131657.GC88714@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040524122957.GA47602@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <20040524122957.GA47602@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:29:57PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
>=20
> This is probably a simple question with a simple answer, but I wasn't sure
> where to look.
>=20
> I recently installed a deny-all firewall and everything is working fine.
> However, I keep getting /kernel log messages about attempts to connect to
> port 25. Are these just various processes trying to mail their results to
> root, but can't because of the firewall? Or maybe cron doing the same th=
ing?
>=20
> May 24 08:00:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:1101 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:00:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:2270 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:05:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:4230 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:10:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:2687 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:15:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:3274 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:20:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:1542 flags:0x02
> May 24 08:25:00 neptune /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 f=
rom
> 127.0.0.1:3652 flags:0x02
If you're using sendmail, that the client mail submission instance
trying to hand off a message to the MTA instance. If you type
# mailq -Ac
you should be able to see what been queued up.
You will have to alter your firewalling to allow TCP connections
localhost:any -> localhost:smtp in order to get e-mail working on that
machine.
Cheers,
Matthew
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