There should definitely only be one uncommented reference to pop-3 in
/etc/inetd.conf. When you have commented out the 'non-virtuald entry' are
any errors reported in the syslog after the 'killall -HUP inetd'? Also,
after the restart does 'netstat -nl' show listening process on ports 110 and
25?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gary Reid
> (cars-sold)
> Sent: 29 May 2001 20:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: pop not virtualised?
>
>
> Hi
>
> this is an install using rpm and pre built skel, 1.4.8 on a clean
> install of
> Red Hat 6.1 -
>
> can anbody see the 'obvious' mistake we are making here as apparently we
> should have this working :)
>
> We do not appear to have pop virtualised. If we connect like so from a
> remote server:
>
> telnet 11.11.66.77 110
>
> we get connected to qpopper at the host not the VS (the IP is just made up
> but we did use the correct one)
>
> If we connect like this locally from the host server:
>
> telnet 11.11.66.77 pop3
>
> we still get connected to qpopper at the host not the VS
>
> HTTP and FTP work fine (and ftp 11.11.66.77 shows the correct
> servername so
> does telnet 11.11.66.77) for the VS but not POP/SMTP
>
> In inetd.conf the main servers pop3 stream is not commented out -
>
> pop3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.qpopper
>
> but if we do comment it out and killall -HUP inetd then the server refuses
> all connections to pop - local or not. The rest of inetd.conf looks like
> this:
>
> ftp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd
> /usr/sbin/proftpd -d -l
> telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd /usr/sbin/in.telnetd
> pop-3 stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd /usr/sbin/in.qpopper
> smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs
> vsd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd /usr/sbin/vsd
> svsd stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/virtuald tcpd /usr/sbin/vsd
>
> Both the host and the VS resolve correctly and have valid reverse lookups
> enabled - with nslookup for domain and IP done on a
> non-authoritative server
>
> ifconfig after a reboot of the vs shows (11.11.66.77 has been replaced for
> the real IP's but the number sequence is the same):
>
> [root@ns /sbin]# ./ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:64:D0:17
> inet addr:11.11.66.70 Bcast:11.11.66.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:792281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> TX packets:78261 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:1794 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc80
>
> eth0:0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:64:D0:17
> inet addr:11.11.66.71Bcast:11.11.66.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc80
>
> eth0:1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:64:D0:17
> inet addr:11.11.66.72 Bcast:66.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc80
>
> eth0:2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:DA:64:D0:17
> inet addr:11.11.66.77 Bcast:66.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0xdc80
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:7899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:7899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>
> If anyone has any ideas on where else to look we would very much
> appreciate
> it
>
> regards
>
> Gary
>
>
