Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:13:34 -0500 From: "Erin Fortenberry" <Erin@Fortenberry.net> To: "'David Banning'" <david+dated+1140624411.1fb9f0@skytracker.ca>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: mail port 8025 conundrum Message-ID: <002601c633dd$1a7349f0$1215450a@ad.ewsad.net> In-Reply-To: <20060217160651.GA22179@skytracker.ca>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of > David Banning > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:07 AM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: mail port 8025 conundrum > > I have a strange problem where port 8025 is blocked on my server. > > Trying to connect with telnet, here is the response; > > david$ telnet banning.ca 8025 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused > telnet: Unable to connect to remote host > > Yet I host 6 other domains on the same server, and all the > others seems > to be fine; > > david$ telnet optexstaging.com 8025 > Trying 209.161.205.12... > Connected to optexstaging.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 3s1.com ESMTP tmda-ofmipd > quit > > It makes no difference whether I enable the firewall or not. > Strangely I -can- connect to banning.ca via port 25 or 110; > > david$ telnet banning.ca 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to banning.ca. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 3s1.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.8p1/8.12.8; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 > 11:06:04 -0500 (EST) > > To my knowledge, there is nothing that stops a connection to > a specific > > The only change to my system is that I registered -all- 7 of > the domain > names with a new outside DNS server. It could be that there is some > stale DNS going on, but DNS would be the same for all ports, would > it not? > > Looking at the erroneous message, I see that banning.ca is > being directed > to 127.0.0.1 - why would that happen? > > Any direction would be helpful. It looks like nothing is bound to port 8025 on 127.0.0.1 (localhost). You can do a sockstat and verify. -Erin
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