Re: port 25 disabled?

[Joe M Mar <apeiron5@home.com>]

At 04:08 PM 11/26/01 -0600, you wrote:

The output is:
tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*
LISTEN      263/inetd
The difference is 'LISTEN 263 as opposed to what you said LISTEN 19551.
Anything wrong with my output?
> On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 15:21, Joe M Mar wrote:
> >
> > >Just the configuration it had after a fresh install.  I did not touch any
> > >settings because they were working pretty good.
> > >
> > >What does inetd.conf and hosts.allow and hosts.deny have in them (all in
> > >etc)?  You may be blocking external hosts with tcp wrappers.
> > >
> > >--mike
>
> So there is the ALL: PARANOID directive in hosts.deny.
>
> Exim runs from inetd.conf with this line:
>
> #:MAIL: Mail, news and uucp services.
> smtp            stream  tcp     nowait  mail    /usr/sbin/exim exim -bs
>
> netstat -atp |grep smtp shows (as root):
>
>  tcp        0      0 *:smtp                  *:*
> LISTEN      19551/inetd
>
> Do these hosts you are connecting from have both forward and reverse DNS
> records?  This would block them with a line in /var/log/daemon about
> refused connections.  If there are no such logs then @home may just
> disallow port 25 incoming.
>
> --mike
>
>
>
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