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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:20:18 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Port Not Available
Message-ID:  <20060808192018.GB36720@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net>
References:  <20060808145644.G2113@scorpio.seibercom.net>

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On 2006-08-08 14:59, Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> wrote:
> I have not been able to get printing working on this PC. By accident. I 
> noticed that the ::1 port does not seem to be available. I tried this 
> command:
>
> ~ $ telnet localhost 25
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 scorpio.seibercom.net ESMTP Postfix (2.4-20060727)
> quit
> 221 2.0.0 Bye
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> As you can see, it says that the connection was refused. Is this
> normal? I thought that ::1 and localhost were always available.

Ehm, that's not a port number, but an IPv6 address of `localhost':

$ grep ::1 /usr/src/etc/hosts
::1                     localhost localhost.my.domain
$





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