Re: Sendmail Not Excepting External connections

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:58:17PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 10:49, Andre Cameron wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Bit of an issue here.  I have setup sendmail a dozen times and have 
> > never had a problem.  Well I need this box here to accept mail so I edit 
> > the sendmail.mc and comment out the loop back line, I edit the 
> > local-host-names file etc make -C /etc/mail and restart sendmail yet the 
> > port is not open!  I can not telnet to it, nmap or anything else.  But 
> > if I do an NMAP on local host it is up and open.
> > 
> > So maybie the firewall is on right?  Nope, I set it to off and reboot 
> > but still have the same problem, any one here have any ideas?
> ----
> from same machine...
> 
> telnet localhost 25
> netstat -an
> 
> - 
> 
> how about route -n
> 
> is the ip/subnet_mask proper - can you ping from other computers?
> 
> Craig
Have you changed /etc/hosts.allow to allow sendmail. By default it is not
allowed.
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