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 :-)
>>
>>
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