Telnet to port 25 fails

[John Jolet]

On Mar 2, 2006, at 9:42 AM, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:

> On 02.03.2006 16:09, Billy A. Pumphrey wrote:
>
>> Well I have gotten some ground on my new install and I cannot  
>> connect to
>> my machine through telnet 25.
>>
>
> # lsof  -nPi  :25
> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> sendmail 5427 root    3u  IPv4  12244       TCP 127.0.0.1:25 (LISTEN)
> sendmail 5427 root    5u  IPv4  12245       TCP 192.168.0.10:25  
> (LISTEN)
>
>
> # grep ^DAEMON /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=192.168.0.10, Name=MTA')dnl
>
if it's truly listening, but you can't connect from external...see if  
you can telnet localhost 25.  sounds like a firewall problem or a  
route problem.