Re: Weird SMTP problem?
Paul Haesler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just experienced a very weird problem.
>
> My Debian box has 2 NIC's: eth1 connects to the cable modem
> and the outside world, eth0 connects to the Windoze boxen on my
> LAN (192.168.1.0/8 - Masqueraded access to outside world.)
>
> Yesterday I had a weird thing. My Debian box could not connect
> to my ISP's SMTP server - no response whatsoever. What's weird
> is I could connect to the same box on the same port from my
> masqueraded Windoze boxes!!
>
> Bringing the external ethernet interface down and back up again
> fixed the problem - but why was it happening in the first place?
>
> Has anybody else seen anything like this, or have any theories
> as to what was going on?
>
> Paul Haesler
>
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Was it the same IP address after you brought it down and up? I believe they
have several different mail servers. Possibly the one your server was sending
to was no longer there but you had cached the address? Just guessing.
Jack
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