Your network Admin is wrong: your port 25 *is* being filtered.
Could it be tcpwrappers if it is not a firewall ? Check /etc/hosts.allow
and /etc/hosts.deny.
Peter
At 03:59 PM 11/8/99 +0100, Barbara Schelkle wrote:
>dear list,
>
>I installed qmail-1.03 and ucspi-tcp-0.84.
>I followed the instructions in Dave Sill's "life with qmail"
>qmail is up and running now, i can send email to local users and
>to remote hosts.
>the ip of my server is 141.20.25.44 (www.vifu.de)
>I can receive email from hosts in 141.20.* so tcpserver is running
>correct, the connctions are logged and the mail gets delivered,
>but not from any other host. when I telnet to port 25 from another
>host, which is not in 141.20.* I don't get a connect, not even a
>refused connection, just a timeout. when i run tcprulescheck for
>that client on the server, I get "allow connection".
>
>any hints where i can check why i can't connect to port 25
>from other hosts ?
>
>thanks in advance,
> Barbara
>
>(our network admin says he does not do any packet filtering on our
>network...)
>
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