Quoting "M. Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
its detailed on sendmail.mc (RH 7.1), sendmail will accept connections on
localhost only..even you telnet your own box with its hostname..you'll get a
connection refused.
dwen
>
> Funny you should mention this just when one of my junior sysadmins was
> having a problem with a new RH7.1 box. He customized the install and
> only
> specified certain package groups (as in Development and Kernel
> Development,
> etc.) during the install. He also chose the "No firewall" option.
> Upon
> reboot he couldn't get sendmail to accept remote connections and
> suspected
> the firewall. He ran setup and found out that the firewalling option
> was
> set to high. He reset it to No Firewall and rebooted. He did this
> about 4
> times and each time he ran setup, the firewall option was again in
> Strict
> mode. I wonder why it insists on doing so and if any of you encountered
> the
> same behaviour.
>
> BTW, the problem was not in the firewall it was in the sendmail config
> and
> was detailed in RH's 7.1 Gotchas page under Support and Docs. We
> finally
> got it working after that but the firewall option being set to always
> Strict
> persisted. What gives?
>
>
> M. Yu
>
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