Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:19:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Just another Joe <joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu> To: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, cjclark@home.com Subject: Re: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909280915440.522-100000@njal.ualr.edu> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMMEEACCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Francis J. Bruening wrote: > Hi, > > sorry to flog this to death, but I think I'm getting closer to > solving the (*&%)%^*) sendmail problem. (oh the optimist in me ;) > > In trying to determine why sendmail won't talk w/ fetchmail, I've > done the following. > > ps aux | grep send -> sendmail is up and is "waiting for connections" > > echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjb@localhost > works, and I get the mail > > echo "blahfoo" | mail -v -s "test mail" fjbruening@home.com > works, and I get the mail at my ISP site > > /etc/hosts has the line "127.0.0.1 c583119-a.potlnd.or.home.com localhost" > > telnet localhost 25 -> this just hangs (it may time out after several > minutes, but I've always killed it. > > telnet 127.0.0.1 25 -> same as above > > ping 127.0.0.1 -> doesn't work, I get 100% packet loss. > > Should I not be able to ping myself? I can't understand what I've > screwed up to break sendmail so badly. It seems like sendmail to > send mail, but won't let me (or other processes, such as fetchmail) > talk to it... > > *argh* > > Francis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com] > Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:11 PM > To: Francis J. Bruening > Cc: freebsd > Subject: Re: why won't sendmail listen to me? > > > Francis J. Bruening wrote, > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to debug a fetchmail problem, and I've come to the > > conclusion sendmail isn't healthy. > > > > The following command should work, but it doesn't. > > > > telnet localhost 25 # this times out > > > > yet, if I do the following, it works > > > > echo "test mail" | mail -v -s "test" fjb@localhost #this works > > > > so my question. Why won't sendmail "listen" to me? This causes > > a problem with fetchmail. > > > > I'm running a new install of 3.3. > > > > any advice or suggestions on how to resolve this are greatly appreciated. > > What does, > > % ps aux | grep sendmail > > Return? Is sendmail running? Is there an entry relevent to sendmail in > your rc.conf? > > % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf > > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Sounds like lo0 is not running. What does "ifconfig -a" report? -joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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