From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 28 9:18: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from unix.megared.net.mx (megamail.megared.com.mx [207.249.162.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F202D15623 for ; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:17:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Received: from ales (ales.megared.net.mx [207.249.163.251]) by unix.megared.net.mx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA86684; Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:16:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from ales@megared.net.mx) Message-ID: <025701bf09cc$e928b240$fba3f9cf@megared.net.mx> Reply-To: "Alejandro Ramirez" From: "Alejandro Ramirez" To: "Francis J. Bruening" , "freebsd" Cc: References: Subject: RE: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:17:07 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Whats the output of "ifconfig -a", it would be nice to see the lo driver in there. Ales ----- Original Message ----- From: Francis J. Bruening To: freebsd Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:56 AM Subject: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message