Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:56:12 -0700 From: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <cjclark@home.com> Subject: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) Message-ID: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMMEEACCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <199909280411.AAA93471@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Hi,
sorry to flog this to death, but I think I'm getting closer to
solving the (*&%)%^*) sendmail problem. (oh the optimist in me ;)
In trying to determine why sendmail won't talk w/ fetchmail, I've
done the following.
ps aux | grep send -> sendmail is up and is "waiting for connections"
echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjb@localhost
works, and I get the mail
echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjbruening@home.com
works, and I get the mail at my ISP site
/etc/hosts has the line "127.0.0.1 c583119-a.potlnd.or.home.com localhost"
telnet localhost 25 -> this just hangs (it may time out after several
minutes, but I've always killed it.
telnet 127.0.0.1 25 -> same as above
ping 127.0.0.1 -> doesn't work, I get 100% packet loss.
Should I not be able to ping myself? I can't understand what I've
screwed up to break sendmail so badly. It seems like sendmail to
send mail, but won't let me (or other processes, such as fetchmail)
talk to it...
*argh*
Francis
-----Original Message-----
From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:11 PM
To: Francis J. Bruening
Cc: freebsd
Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me?
Francis J. Bruening wrote,
[Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to debug a fetchmail problem, and I've come to the
> conclusion sendmail isn't healthy.
>
> The following command should work, but it doesn't.
>
> telnet localhost 25 # this times out
>
> yet, if I do the following, it works
>
> echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works
>
> so my question. Why won't sendmail "listen" to me? This causes
> a problem with fetchmail.
>
> I'm running a new install of 3.3.
>
> any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this are greatly appreciated.
What does,
% ps aux | grep sendmail
Return? Is sendmail running? Is there an entry relevent to sendmail in
your rc.conf?
% grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf
--
Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
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