Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 19:50:35 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: David Banning <david@skytrackercanada.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't telnet anything on port 25 Message-ID: <20020624185034.GA10465@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020624140920.A22529@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20020624140920.A22529@skytrackercanada.com>
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On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:09:20PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
>
> I can't seem to telnet any server on port 25;
>
> su-2.03# telnet skytrackercanada.com 25
> Trying 209.188.66.29...
> telnet: connect to address 209.188.66.29: Operation timed out
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
> su-2.03#
Seems that nothing is listening on the SMTP port --- since you aren't
firewalled, I guess you aren't running an MTA --- sendmail, qmail,
postfix or the like. You can see what ports daemons are listening on
by running `netstat -a' or `sockstat'.
Matthew
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