errrr .. found my answer in RH's website *sheesh* .. sorry for the noise
:)
(turned out that sendmail in 7.1 only listens to 127.0.0.1 by default)
classic case of RTFM :)
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Froilan Mendoza wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> im relay testing one of my machines here by telnetting to mail-abuse.org.
> i got this error:
>
> [root@rh mail]# telnet mail-abuse.org
> Trying 204.152.186.193...
> Connected to mail-abuse.org.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> /proj/maps/bin/in.relaytest: socket failed [Bad file descriptor]
> Connecting to 64.80.22.171 ...
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> Anyone experienced this before? Tips? Hints? URL?
>
> BTW, I am using RH7.1 with default 2.4.2 kernel, FWIW
>
> Thank you
>
> Froilan
>
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