From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 18 19: 9:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chump.org (adsl-204-1-124-128.indi.se.verio.net [204.1.124.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA68F37B9BF for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 19:09:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@gs.verio.net) Received: from gs.verio.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chump.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00607; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:09:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from gjohnson@gs.verio.net) Message-ID: <39750DC6.8B7D2B9C@gs.verio.net> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:09:10 -0500 From: Tony Johnson Reply-To: gjohnson@gs.verio.net Organization: Expert Slutions, L.L.C X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Sam Carleton , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: binding sendmail to one IP address References: <3974FCEF.B9A3E69D@miltonstreet.com> <20000718182753.N13979@fw.wintelcom.net> <39750750.98DAE6CE@gs.verio.net> <20000718184648.P13979@fw.wintelcom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My point is that your mail server still has smtp bound to every ip addy on your box wheather you firewall the extras out or not. So if someone from the inside has smtp set to one of the firewalled out ip addy's of your mail server, how would this help your mail server? I don't believe that canceling yourself out by using firewall rules is the answer. Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > > > * Sam Carleton [000718 17:50] wrote: > > > > I have sendmail running on a machine with multipal IP addresses. I > > > > would like sendmail to only listen to one of those IP addresses. How do > > > > I configure sendmail to do that? > > > > > > I couldn't find the info with a cursory check at www.sendmail.org, > > > as a workaround I would suggest experimenting with ipfw's 'unreach' > > > and 'reset' commands. > > > > > * Tony Johnson [000718 18:42] wrote: > > Yes , sendmail doesn't seem to have a listen on: directive like apache s > > sendmail will bind to all avaliable ip's. I am nt talking about 8.10.1 > > and 8.10.2 sendmail as I haven't used these... > > Can you use ipfw as a workaround? :) > > -Alfred > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message