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From: Bhishan Hemrajani <bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org>
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Subject: Re: tcpwrapper kills incoming email
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 wellsian at "Feb 27, 2000 10:44:04 pm"
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:18:23 -0800 (PST)
Cc: "Toby J. Swanson" <toby@milkyway.org>,
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What release are you running? If you are running 3.4, it comes with
tcp wrappers, so you might have overwritten some binaries on accident.
If you start inetd like this, TCP wrappers will be enabled:
# inetd -wW

Hope this helps.

--bhishan

> Do you know what you changed? A log is always important when doing admin
> stuff. Not that I haven't been in your shoes... Maybe try script(1) next
> time to record your actions?
> 
> Did you wrap smtp? By that I mean, did you add or uncomment a line in
> inetd.conf that begins with smtp? Maybe sendmail is disabled for everyone
> in your hosts.allow or hosts.deny files? I'm just guessing here. Is email
> the only thing that stopped working?
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Toby J. Swanson wrote:
> 
> > Email worked fine until. . .
> > 
> > I set up tcpwrappers per example 3 in the tcpd man page.
> > Now incoming email connections receive the message,
> > 
> > 550 Access denied
> > user@domain.com . . . Service unavailable
> > 
> > I changed everything back to the original state, restarted
> > inetd, then rebooted, but still get this message.
> > 
> > Any ideas what happened?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Toby
> 
> 
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