Thanks for the pointer, George. Nice thing to know!
To be more specific, is that the last one listed by ifconfig? (and what
determines that?)

George Sweetnam wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind when adding multiple ip's on a machine... the smtp 
> services will use the LAST ip listed on the box.  That can play havoc with 
> reverse dns, tcprules, firewalls, ect.   I learned it the hard way with a 
> machine I switched to add additional ip's last year and we started having 
> smtp problems because of it (SPF mainly).
> 
> George
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric "Shubes"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] smtp hanging up
> 
> 
> Erik Espinoza wrote:
>> Sounds like an smtp route is missing in the postfix.
> 
> I'll buy that, since the /var/log/maillog on the web server says:
> 
> Jan  4 21:47:51 hostname postfix/smtp[30371]: connect to
> mail.mydomain.com[10.0.1.70]: No route to host (port 25)
> 
> (see reply to Jake)
> 
>> Your postfix is
>> probably connecting to the outside static ip instead of attempting to
>> hit 10.0.1.69 directly on the private network.
> 
> You may be on to something here, but I'm not sure.
> 
> main.cf for postfix had relayhost = 10.0.1.70. I changed it to 10.0.1.69,
> and two messages made it through. That seems to have fixed things up
> somewhat. I'll have to talk with the networking guy tomorrow and see why .70
> was used instead of .69.
> 
> Thanks loads EE. You've pointed me in the right direction!
> Thanks to Jake and everyone else too! I really appreciate everyone's help.
> 
>> See if, frm a diff machine, you can hit 10.0.1.69 from the outside ip.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/4/07, Eric Shubes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> This problem has me stumped at the moment.
>>>
>>> A (relatively) high volume toaster (10.0.1.69) on CentOS4. It's been
>>> running
>>> fine for the most part. However, when processing messages from a local
>>> web
>>> server (10.0.1.66) relayed from postfix, the message doesn't go through.
>>> FWIW (doesn't make sense to me) the sending postfix queue shows that the
>>> connection timed out or no route to host.
>>>
>>> I turned on recordio to see what's happening, and here the smtp log for a
>>> session:
>>>
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:53.798287500 tcpserver: status: 0/100
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.875954500 tcpserver: status: 1/100
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.875962500 tcpserver: pid 5787 from 10.0.1.66
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.875964500 tcpserver: ok 5787 spin4:10.0.1.69:25
>>> :10.0.1.66::43332
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.875967500 5787 < [EOF]
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.970660500 5787 > 220 mydomain.com - Welcome to Qmail
>>> Toaster Ver. 1.3 SMTP Server ESMTP^M
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.970671500 5787 > [EOF]
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.970673500 tcpserver: end 5787 status 256
>>> 2007-01-04 18:23:54.970675500 tcpserver: status: 0/100
>>>
>>> The smtp session rapidly terminates, out of the blue.
>>>
>>> I can telnet from the web server to the toaster just fine.
>>>
>>> tcp.smtp:
>>> 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
>>> 10.0.1.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
>>> :allow,BADMIMETYPE="",BADLOADERTYPE="M",CHKUSER_RCPTLIMIT="50",CHKUSER_WRONGRCPTLIMIT="10",QMAILQUEUE="/var/qmail/bin/simscan",DKSIGN="/var/qmail/control/domainkeys/%/private"
>>>
>>>
>>> qmail-dk has been taken out (qmail-queue -> qmail-queue.orig)
>>>
>>> timeoutsmtpd:
>>> 60
>>>
>>> Any thoughts/ideas?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> -Eric 'shubes'
>>>
> 
> 


-- 
-Eric 'shubes'

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