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Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Mar 28 08:55:24 GMT 2003


At 08:59 28/03/2003, you wrote:
>Hi all
>I suddenly got a problem here
>I run Red Hat 7.3 -All paches
>With sendmail Standard install
>
>I get this when telneting to localhost
>telnet localhost 25
>Trying 127.0.0.1...
>telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
>
> >From othr hosts I can telnet in
>I checked where it is listening and got this
>tcp        0      0 192.168.1.1:25        0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN

Looks like you have either been playing with /etc/hosts or the
DaemonOptions in sendmail.cf. Your sendmail is only listening on
192.168.1.1 where it should be listening on everything.
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