On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 06:16:24PM +0200, Victoriano Giralt wrote:

> How does Postfix react to this?

> I see this in the logs:
> Aug 30 18:10:27 correoe1 postfix/proxymap[19744]: warning:
> dict_ldap_connect: Unable to bind to server ldap://10.0.1.6:389
> ldap://10.0.1.7:389 as cn=bind dn here: 9 (Partial results and referral
> received)
> Aug 30 18:10:27 correoe1 postfix/smtpd[19816]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> mailfwd.nih.gov[128.231.90.106]: 451 4.3.0 <[email protected]>:
> Temporary lookup failure; from=<[email protected]>
> to=<[email protected]> proto=ESMTP helo=<relay.hub.example.com>
>
> It seems that postfix tries does not know what to do, as the system in the
> referral is not reachable (that is what might require second thoughts), but
> the firewall produces an immediate TCP reset, so 10.0.1.6 should, IMHO, be
> considered unreachable and 10.0.1.7 tried instead.
>
> Am I totally confused? Is this the intended flow?

The LDAP library hands Postfix a connection, when Postfix fails
to bind it gives up.

-- 
        Viktor.

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