Yup telneted to the external ip from the outside Rob
On 05/25/2010 04:57 PM, Muwonge Ronald wrote: > oops I meant the local IP sorry > > On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Muwonge Ronald <[email protected] > <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[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] <mailto:[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. > --------------------------------------- > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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