[lug] sendmail not accepting

[Chip Atkinson]

Ok, how about ipchains -L ?  You can also use "netstat -lenp" to show 
what ports are being listened on and by who.

Chip

Gary Hodges wrote:

> Chip Atkinson wrote:
> 
> 
>> Can you ping the IP address of space?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>> You should verify that the IP address is the IP address of the machine
>> that you are on.  Use ifconfig eth0 (assuming only one ethernet card).
> 
> 
> ~>/sbin/ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:67:86:39
>           inet addr:140.172.144.174  Bcast:140.172.144.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:628 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:235 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:92449 (90.2 Kb)  TX bytes:16343 (15.9 Kb)
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
> 
> 
> Just for kicks...
> 
> ~>ps auxw | grep sendmail
> root       965  0.0  0.3  5300 1996 ?        S    10:55   0:00 sendmail:
> accepting connections
> 
> Cheers,
> Gary
> 
> 
> 
>> Gary Hodges wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On a mostly fresh install of RH 7.2 I'm unable to send email to this
>>> machine.  I can send mail from this machine to this machine, just not
>>> from another machine.  If I run the following command :
>>> 
>>> ~>telnet localhost 25
>>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>>> Connected to localhost.
>>> Escape character is '^]'.
>>> 220 space.srrb.noaa.gov ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.6/8.11.6; Wed, 31 Oct 2001
>>> 10:34:06 -0700
>>> 
>>> If I run:
>>> ~>telnet space 25
>>> Trying 140.172.144.174...
>>> telnet: connect to address 140.172.144.174: Connection refused
>>> 
>>> So I guess sendmail is working, but for some reason it is not accepting
>>> connections to the machine name.  I feel like it must be how I've set up
>>> networking, but I've tried a bunch of different things there with no
>>> luck.  I have also tried the "no firewall" setting.
>> 
> 
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