Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:27:18 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: jaymax <jaymax36@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Telnet => servname ai_socktype error Message-ID: <20100813032718.GD18896@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <29425269.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <29425269.post@talk.nabble.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 12), jaymax said: > > FreeBSD my.domain.com 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 08:49:13 > UTC 2009 > root@walker.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > Testing a Qmail SMTP installation with Telnet > > (normally use SSH for networking) > > Temporary Telnet set up for testing ==> > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > Server set up ==> > > % telnet localhost 25 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection reset by peer That sounds like you connected but qmail crashed or otherwise uncleanly closed the socket. Does a tcpdump on lo0 show any interesting activity when you try that command? -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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