This one time, at band camp, David P James said: > >As you have noted, there are quite a few variables. Rule out iptables > >and tcpwrappers first - from an address outside the LAN, telnet > >your.host.ip 25 - if the connection times out, it's probably iptables, > >if it's refused, it's either iptables or tcpwrappers. If you connect > >and get the exim greeting banner, then you know that the problem is your > >exim.conf. > > I sshed to my brother's Redhat server and did the telnet my.host.ip 25 > thing back to my server; the connection timed out. I tried a few other > ports (21, 80, 22, 110) and got a connection quite quickly. Then apparently iptables is DROPping connections to that port - fix that and we'll move from there. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | In the misfortune of our friends we | | steve@lobefin.net | find something that is not displeasing | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | to us. -- La Rochefoucauld, "Maxims" | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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