Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:56:12 -0700 From: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <cjclark@home.com> Subject: Is it normal to not be able to ping 127.0.0.1? (more sendmail woes) Message-ID: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMMEEACCAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> In-Reply-To: <199909280411.AAA93471@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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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
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