bsnmpd: send: Connection refused

[James Long]

I'm trying to implement the bsnmpd service on one of my machines.

In rc.conf I have:

# run the bsnmpd daemon, with debugging
bsnmpd_enable="YES"
bsnmpd_flags="-c /etc/snmpd-test.config -d -D dump"


In hosts.allow, very near the top, I have:

bsnmpd : ALL : allow


Here is the diff of the sample config file versus my own:

# diff -u /etc/snmpd.config  /etc/snmpd-test.config
--- /etc/snmpd.config   Tue May 16 14:27:01 2006
+++ /etc/snmpd-test.config      Fri Jul 28 14:27:28 2006
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #
 # Set some common variables
 #
-host := foobar
-location := "Room 200"
-contact := "sysmeister at example.com"
+host := localhost
+location := "right here"
+contact := "system at localhost"
 system := 1    # FreeBSD
 traphost := localhost
 trapport := 162
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 begemotSnmpdCommunityDisable   = 1

 # open standard SNMP ports
-begemotSnmpdPortStatus.[$(host)].161 = 1
+#begemotSnmpdPortStatus.[$(host)].161 = 1
 begemotSnmpdPortStatus.127.0.0.1.161 = 1

 # open a unix domain socket



When I start bsnmpd, I get

# /etc/rc.d/bsnmpd start
Starting bsnmpd.
snmpd[5474]: send: Connection refused
^C#

What is causing the "Connection refused" message?  The freebsd-questions archive 
yields no hits on "snmpd AND refused" nor "bsnmpd AND refused"



# sockstat | grep bsnmpd
root     bsnmpd     5482  3  udp4   127.0.0.1:57050       127.0.0.1:162
root     bsnmpd     5482  5  udp4   *:*                   *:*
root     bsnmpd     5482  6  udp4   127.0.0.1:161         *:*
root     bsnmpd     5482  7  stream /var/run/snmpd.sock
root     bsnmpd     5482  8  dgram  -> /var/run/logpriv


I am also seeing a timeout error when trying to connect to query the
bsnmpd daemon, but I won't worry about this until the "Connection
refused" message goes away.

# snmpwalk -c public localhost
snmpwalk: Timeout



Thank you!