[lug] SMTP delivery: No route to host

Justin-lists glow at jackmoves.com
Sun Nov 24 01:38:44 MST 2002


Firewall routing table:
[glowecon at naz glowecon]$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
66.252.192.227  0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH       40 0          0 ppp0
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 eth1
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U        40 0          0 lo
0.0.0.0         66.252.192.227  0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 ppp0

Client machien routing table:
[glow at sirius glow]$ netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U        40 0          0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U        40 0          0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG       40 0          0 eth0

The server is my own. I know smtp works fine on the server because I have many
other users that use it. It has to be a problem w/ my local boxes or the route
it's taking to get there. But I don't understand why it's *only* happening for
port 25.

Justin
--
glow at jackmoves.com


---------- Original Message -----------
From: Dan Cox <dancox at teleport.com>
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Sent: 23 Nov 2002 20:07:25 -0700
Subject: Re: [lug] SMTP delivery: No route to host

> What does the routing table look like on the firewall and on the host
> your sending mail from (netstat -rn)? Off the top of my head this looks
> like your firewall or the host doesn't know the route to the smtp
> server. Might be a default route thing.Is the 206.247.117.72 host 
> your server or your ISPs server?
> 
> Dan Cox
> 

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