On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 03:16:17PM -0600, Anathae Townsend wrote: >I am currently trying to open up a few ports on my firewall to allow an >internal >windows home server to provide services to the outside world. > >My OpenBSD version is OpenBSD 4.5-current (GENERIC) #6: Sat May 16 21:50:41 >MDT 2009 > >I am trying to use the simple proxy method mentioned in the faq on the >OpenBSD.org to >forward internal requests to the external ip address to the home server. > >However, I can't get there from here. Neither internal nor external >requests to the >external ip address work. A msdos telnet session to the external ip >address, port 25 >returns an SMTP 421 error immediately and exits.
The 421 error comes from the SMTP server. So you have a connection and forwarding seems to work fine. You need to look at the server's configuration or log files to sort this out. Maurice
