oops I meant the local IP sorry On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Muwonge Ronald <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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