Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:20:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port Not Available Message-ID: <20060808192018.GB36720@gothmog.pc> In-Reply-To: <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net>
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On 2006-08-08 14:59, Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote: > I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I > noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this > command: > > ~ $ telnet localhost 25 > Trying ::1... > telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to localhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 scorpio.seibercom.net ESMTP Postfix (2.4-20060727) > quit > 221 2.0.0 Bye > Connection closed by foreign host. > > As you can see, it says that the connection was refused. Is this > normal? I thought that ::1 and localhost were always available. Ehm, that's not a port number, but an IPv6 address of `localhost': $ grep ::1 /usr/src/etc/hosts ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain $
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