Re: Can't connect to port 25 from another system
- From: David-Paul Niner <dpniner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:01:03 -0400
To clarify my earlier response a bit:
The default sendmail config in RH/Fedora has been to only listen on the
loopback device for some time.
The /etc/mail/sendmail.mc has a comment in the file right before the
line that needs to be commented out in order for it to listen on other
addresses.
editing the stock sendmail.mc file and issuing the following command:
`make -C /etc/mail && service sendmail restart`
should resolve the issue if that is the problem.
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On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 21:32 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
Perhaps someone can help me with this problem. I have sendmail running
on an FC5 system.* It works to the extent that I can send email from
that system to other systems in other domains. The problem is that
other systems cannot initiate a connection to it. Here are the key
facts that I have been able to confirm:
- I previously edited the sendmail.mc file to be sure it is listening on
port 25 and did a make to update sendmail.cf. Then I stopped and
restarted sendmail.
- Sendmail is definitely running.
- Both netstat and nmap confirm that the system *is* listening on port
25, as it should be.
- When I attempt to telnet to port 25 the connection fails. However,
telnet definitely is running. I can telnet to the host without
specifying a port and successfully communicate with the telnet server.
On the other hand, when I try to telnet to port 23 (where netstat and
nmap confirm that the telnet server is listening), I get the same error
as when I try to telnet to port 25. I have tried this from multiple
hosts on my LAN, all with the same results.
- In an effort to rule out firewalls as a possible source of the
problem, I disabled selinux completely and stopped iptables. (I did not
see anything in iptables that should block port 25 but I wanted to be
sure it was not the source of the problem.)
- All of the above testing was done on my LAN. The traffic did not
traverse my hardware router/firewall. In any case, the firewall is
configured to not block port 25. (I had sendmail running successfully
before, on an old system that finally went belly-up.)
- As noted above, I can successfully send mail that requires sendmail to
connect to another smtp server that is outside my LAN.
All of this makes me think that there is some firewall-like thing going
on where outbound smtp connections are okay but smtp sessions that are
initiated by another host are not. The behavior with telnet connections
only working if the port is not specified baffles me. With selinux and
iptables turned off, I am out of ideas. Any suggestions?
TIA,
Debbie
*32-bit FC5 running on a 64-bit system because 54-bit FC5 installs but
won't boot completely. You may remember the recent thread...
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