mail port 8025 conundrum
Erin Fortenberry
Erin at Fortenberry.net
Fri Feb 17 08:13:37 PST 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of
> David Banning
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:07 AM
> To: questions at 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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