OT : problems accessing sendmail from LAN

[Ed Budd]

What does "sockstat -4" tell you? Are you sure sendmail is listening on
a publicly-accessible interface (and not just the loopback)?



On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:29:42 -0800 (PST)
faisal gillani <fasi_74 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> yes sure no firewall
> & yes no other firewall also ...
> am working on local LAN only 
> 
> 
> --- Lowell Gilbert
> <freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> > faisal gillani <fasi_74 at yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Well i have a PC running sendmail & pop3 deamon .
> > when
> > > i try to access sendmail & pop3 services from
> > locally
> > > "on the same pc"i am sucessful . but when i try to
> > > access smtp services of sendmail from over lan i
> > can
> > > find it .. i mean the PC dont have any firewall
> > > installed .. 
> > 
> > Are you *sure* there's no firewall running on that
> > machine?
> > 
> > > when i port scan it from network i can see pop3
> > port
> > > open but sendmail smtp port isnt open .. what can
> > be
> > > wrong ? i dont understand .. sendmail services
> > arent
> > > accesable.
> > 
> > Are you sure there's no firewall in between?  ISPs
> > often filter out
> > SMTP, for example.
> 
> 
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