mail port 8025 conundrum

[Erin Fortenberry]

> -----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