Re: smtp error 10 - since a set of rpm upgrades

[Kalum / Grendel <kalum lintux cx>]

On  Fri, 9 Mar 2001, arthur m coucouvitis commented thusly,

> 
> hello, all
> 
> i find the following going on 
> since i ran a _bunch_ of upgrades on an alpha pc164
> the machine is running RH6.1 with all the 6.2 rpm
> updates applied
> ------------------------------------------------------
> # fetchmail <my-mailserver>
> skipping message 1 not flushed
> skipping message 2 not flushed
> reading message 3 of 18 (6314 octets) ..fetchmail: SMTP
> connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from
> mail.atipa.com
> fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> ------------------------------------------------------

> i installed postfix as a replacement of sendmail 
> because of comments i'd seen about it,
> but that hasn't changed anything.
> turns out i can still send mail
> but local access is busted,
> i tried the following
> ------------------------------------------------------
> # telnet localhost
> Trying 127.0.0.0...
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Network is
> unreachable
> ------------------------------------------------------


What does your /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf file contain, and what does
your /etc/hosts.allow contain?
 
> i can ping my network interface,
> i can telnet to the machine from itself

No you cant, your above message says "network unreachable"

> but smtp isn't cooperating :-(
> 
> i looked in /etc/pam.d, checked my inetd.conf
> didn't see anything to affect smtp

It isnt SMTP only, this looks like it affects the entire setup.
 
Best Wishes,
Grendel


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