Re: What's blocking Port 25?

• Previous message: Patrick Ouellette: "Re: why EsounD does not start with /etc/init.d/esound start ?"
• Maybe in reply to: Griffin Palmer: "What's blocking Port 25?"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:58:53 -0700 (PDT)
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Blindingly obvious (in retrospect) troubleshooting
sequence:

Is the service supposed to run as a daemon?

Yes

Is the daemon active and listening? ....

In my rather weak defense, whenever I've seen the
"connection refused" message in the past, it was in a
different context: I was confirming that I'd shut off
a service I wanted to keep around, but didn't want to
leave running when not in use.

And I *had* had to do things a bit differently with
Firestarter under this new install, so the issue of
open & closed ports had been planted in my brain.

Also obscuring my vision was the fact that when I'd
originate a message with mutt, exim would dutifully
accept and forward the message. This made it easier
for me to overlook the obvious question of whether the
daemon was listening on that port.

                                                    
gp

--- John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>
wrote:
> Griffin Palmer wrote:
>
> >Muddled thinking was also a problem! I was taking
> the
> >"connection refused" message to be a symptom that
> the
> >firewall was rejecting packets on that port. But I
> >should have remembered from my own experience (duh)
> >that one gets that message when trying to connect
> to a
> >port on which no service is listening. Sheesh.
> >
> >
> >
>
> :-) I was beginning to think you uncommonly thick.
> Especially for one
> who'd got so far.
>
> I'm glad it's working.
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> -- spambait
> 1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au
> Z1aaaaaaa@computerdatasafe.com.au
> Tourist pics
>
http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/
>
>

-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org

• Previous message: Patrick Ouellette: "Re: why EsounD does not start with /etc/init.d/esound start ?"
• Maybe in reply to: Griffin Palmer: "What's blocking Port 25?"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]