From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 28 16:42:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from antares.milkyway.org (lta-r-1.usit.net [205.241.194.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2B737B9CC for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toby@antares.milkyway.org) Received: from rigel (rigel.milkyway.org [205.241.194.19]) by antares.milkyway.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA61770; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:47:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toby@antares.milkyway.org) Message-ID: <003801bf81e9$4fe90ea0$13c2f1cd@milkyway.org> From: "Toby J. Swanson" To: "wellsian" , "Toby J. Swanson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: tcpwrapper kills incoming email Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 07:42:44 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the help. I discovered it was a badly configured hosts.allow file. Hosts.allow did not allow incoming sendmail connections. > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message