This is good feedback/information....
sadly.. i'm not skilled enough (yet) to figure out where to go (on my
system) to fix these things...
is anyone here willing to meet me on the phone and help me work out the
things that have been pointed out in this thread? I promise to take
good notes and learn from the experience...
J.
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Benjamin
Scott wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > I have an ISDN line coming into my house. I have a network running
> > there that contains, among other things, a mailserver...
> > 'pop.threeofus.com' and 'mail.threeofus.com'...
>
> If I try connecting to pop.threeofus.com on TCP port 110, I get the
> "connected" message from Telnet, but a few seconds later your end
> disconnects. That usually means TCP-wrappers is hosed, or DNS is hosed, or
> both. Or are you using IP address restrictions deliberately?
>
> If I try connecting to mail.threeofus.com on TCP port 25, the SMTP banner
> starts out as "220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP ...". Your system appears to
> think it's canonical name is "localhost.localdomain". That may be a
> problem.
>
> The MX record for <threeofus.com> points to <mail.threeofus.com>, which is
> a CNAME record. MX records should only point to canonical names. That is
> likely not causing many problems, but should be fixed eventually.
>
> Have you checked the system logs?
>
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