Re: Postfix causing ICMP errors (according to 'ippl')
Just a gues but the mailer might be trying to do an ident connection and
you might not be running an ident deamon. Is an identd running?
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Maciej Kalisiak wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Ever since I installed 'ippl', which is about a couple of weeks ago, I get the
> following stuff in my syslog almost every time 'fetchmail' connects to port 25:
>
> Jan 21 23:06:55 khazad-dum ippl: smtp connection attempt from khazad-dum [127.0.0.1]
> Jan 21 23:06:56 khazad-dum ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from khazad-dum [127.0.0.1]
> Jan 21 23:06:57 khazad-dum ippl: ICMP message type destination unreachable - bad port from khazad-dum [127.0.0.1]
>
> Sometimes there is only a single ICMP message, sometimes even none. Mail *is*
> begin delivered properly though.
>
> Here's some relavent version information:
>
> ||/ Name Version Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii postfix 0.0.19990906pl A mail transport agent
> ii fetchmail 5.1.2-1 POP2/3, APOP, IMAP mail gatherer/forwarder
> ii ippl 1.4.8-1 IP protocols logger
>
> Can anyone recommend a strategy for tracking down the source of the problem?
>
> --
> Maciej Kalisiak | <mac@dgp.toronto.edu> | http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~mac [McQ]
> PGP->finger|www; (0x39AC36F5) 9F BB 9E 11 F0 1E 5D 20 0B 31 3D 37 47 D0 67 C7
> GE/CS d- s++:+ a- C++(+++) ULAI++ P+++ L+++ E+++ W++ N- o? K? !w--- O- M- V--
> PS PE+ Y+ PGP+ t+ 5 !X-- R+ tv-- b+>++++ DI+ G+ e>+++>++++(*) h--- r+++ y?
>
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