Like Noah said this statement lacks info about the public IP? "Inside the box telnet to port 25 and 465 are fine outside the box they are not."
Did you telnet to the IP ;-) On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Noah Sematimba <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 25, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Gipukan wrote: > > He >> >> telnet 41.220.212.x 25 >> Trying 41.220.212.x... >> Connected to 41.220.212.x. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> Connection closed by foreign host. >> > > Doesn't look like a firewall issue to me. It would have timed out on the > telnet in that case. This looks like the server is the one dropping the > connection. Can you actually verify that the server is listening on the > external ip on those ports with > > netstat -an |grep LIST |grep 25 > > Sometimes you may find that its listening on only the loopback, thus why it > seems to work fine on the localhost but not on the other interfaces. > > Once I experienced a similar issue because someone had mistakenly turned on > V6 on the machine in question so while it was listening, it was just not > talking the same language :-) > > > Noah._______________________________________________ > > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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