Hi Gilles, Thank you for the suggestion. I'm afraid I have some obscure misconfiguration, most likely in pf.conf I intend to rebuild the machine from scratch and add the rules one by one until I break it again :-) If any insights relevant to OpenSMTPd arise I'll report back to the list. kind regards Richard
On 30/09/2013, at 6:33 PM, Gilles Chehade <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:00:35PM +1000, Richard Kernahan wrote: >> Hi All, >> OpenSMTPd from the OpenBSD 5.3 i386 release is installed, and outgoing mail >> is stuck in the queue, unable to find the MX server to relay to. What I find >> confusing is that some emails have been relayed (after some delay). >> >> tcpdump reports that smtpd is sending 3 UDP messages to the name server, but >> when the reply arrives for the first request, an ICMP port unreachable >> message is returned, indicating the first port is unreachable. >> I suspected pf (I always suspect pf :-) but when using dig, we see the MX >> query and the UDP reply is accepted. The difference I see is that dig sends >> only one request instead of 3. >> In both cases (smtpd and dig) `systat states` shows the UDP states. >> It *looks* like smtpd is no longer listening for a response on the first >> request's port. I don't see a response to the second and third requests. >> >> Does anything in the following configuration appear wrong or questionable? >> Does smtpd making 3 DNS requests seem reasonable? What might cause it to >> stop listening for a response? >> > > Sorry for the delay, I forgot about your mail :-) > > Does it still happen if you add domain to the tcpserv macro in your pf.conf ? > > -- > Gilles Chehade > > https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
