Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:47:15 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "Connection refused" Message-ID: <20050316064715.GA85186@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <4237BF11.9080005@mac.com> References: <20050316000330.GA84087@thought.org> <aae61255f1e270811c4c2a97aad54f70@mac.com> <20050316004533.GC84161@thought.org> <4237BF11.9080005@mac.com>
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:07:29AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > [ ... ] > >>DNS for that address is broken, so sendmail on the other machine is > >>unable to get a valid a record to make a connection, so you get > >>"connection refused": > > > > tao is on my private 10.0.0.247 IP. I *have* added > > ns1.thought.org to my /etc/mail/access file and did a > > "# make maps"; I also reinitialized sendmail. > > > > Still get "Connection refused" /etc/hosts* andn > > /etc/resolv.conf look good. What else?? > > You can try telnet'ing to port 25 on the problem host from your other > machine by hand and see what happens. However, sendmail really wants valid > DNS for mail servers, so changing /etc/hosts probably isn't going going to > be enough. Consider using a mailertable entry with [10.0.0.247] to disable > MX lookups, rather than a hostname... > This is strange; I just allowed telnet in /etc/inetd.conf and reinitialized; from here on sage/ns1, this. telnet tao 25 Trying 10.0.0.247... telnet: connect to address 10.0.0.247: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host Could I be missing something in rc.conf? gary > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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