Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-29 Thread Victor McAllister
Michael D Schleif wrote: Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:26:21:47:40-0500] scribed: snip / using the host command, I can get the dmz host to resolve other names and reverse lookup other ips but not it's own. I altered the /etc/tinydns-private/root/data file to read: =localhost:127.0.0.1

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-28 Thread Eric Wolzak
Hello Kory, sorry I haven't read the whole thread. But as I understand, you have a mail server in the dmz running on a leaf box. called DMZ_BOX DMZ = 192.168.10.0/24 route will be 192.168.10.0/24 via 192.168.10.x default via 192.168.10.254 ( DMZ address on LEAFBOX) and a leaf router connected

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-27 Thread Lynn Avants
On Friday 26 December 2003 10:15 pm, Ray Olszewski wrote: Since most of the detail in your latest message is about how you did get things working, I'll skip over that to the one problem that remains -- reverse lookup of on-LAN IP addresses. The tcpdump output says that the mail server is

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-27 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:26:21:47:40-0500] scribed: snip / using the host command, I can get the dmz host to resolve other names and reverse lookup other ips but not it's own. I altered the /etc/tinydns-private/root/data file to read: =localhost:127.0.0.1

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-27 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:27:19:01:19-0500] scribed: Michael, Ray, Lynn, What you are all saying makes sense. I have tried reversing the interfaces that dnscache and tinydns bind to with no improvement. I believe Michael is correct that I need 2 instances of tinydns but I have

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-27 Thread Kory Krofft
Michael, Ray, Lynn, What you are all saying makes sense. I have tried reversing the interfaces that dnscache and tinydns bind to with no improvement. I believe Michael is correct that I need 2 instances of tinydns but I have no idea how to accomplish this in a lrp environment. i would guess

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-26 Thread Kory Krofft
SNIP Now, from here, I can conenct to your Web home page. I can also connect to your SMTP server, but with a long delay: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ telnet kroffts.com 25 Trying [a.b.c.d - address deleted]... Connected to dhcp024-210-193-152.woh.rr.com. Escape character is '^]'. [delay between 2 and 3

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 06:04 PM 12/26/2003 -0500, Kory Krofft wrote: SNIP Now, from here, I can conenct to your Web home page. I can also connect to your SMTP server, but with a long delay: [...] THis is a test of my ability to send a message from an offsite location to the test user on the mail server. Kory -- see

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-26 Thread Kory Krofft
Ray, [...] OK. The problem here is that qmail does not know that mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is mail for local delivery, so it tries to relay it to I can't-guess-where (can that host resolve kroffts.com?). This is, no doubt, a side effect of moving from kroffts.com to kroffts.dmz (or whatever you

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-26 Thread Ray Olszewski
Since most of the detail in your latest message is about how you did get things working, I'll skip over that to the one problem that remains -- reverse lookup of on-LAN IP addresses. The tcpdump output says that the mail server is querying a DNS server that does not exist. Edited to highlight

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-25 Thread Kory Krofft
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 22:13:34 -0600, Lynn Avants wrote: Kory. SNIP It took me about 4 days to get everything setup correctly the first time then life got much easier. This may not be much comfort, but you might want to take a day off and let your mind clear. Reading all the different docs (I

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-25 Thread Tom Eastep
On Thu, 25 Dec 2003, Kory Krofft wrote: I'll comment on the Shorewall configuration. /etc/shorewall/rules #ACTION SOURCE DESTPROTO DESTSOURCE ORIGINAL # PORTPORT(S) DEST # # Accept DNS

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-25 Thread Ray Olszewski
OK. Reading through the router stuff, it looks OK. The two small errors in the rulesets are probably inconsequential in this context. One, this rule is unneeded -- DNATnet dmz:192.168.10.1 udp25 -- (you only need tcp for SMTP) but it is harmless. Two, this

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-23 Thread Kory Krofft
Michael, I set up the /etc/tinydns-private/root/data file per your suggestion, =localhost:127.0.0.1 .localhost:127.0.0.1:a .1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa:127.0.0.1:a .kroffts.home:127.0.0.1:a .1.168.192.in-addr.arpa:127.0.0.1:a =markii.kroffts.home:192.168.1.254

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
Sorry to disagree with Lynn, but the magic words here are quite a while. This strongly suggests to me that an earlier guess, that the observed failures actually are DNS-based delays, is the right guess ... and that quite a while is around 3 minutes. What to do about it? First, maybe your mail

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Kory Krofft
Michael, Thanks for the response. See below... Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:21:12:53:56-0500] scribed: Snip I now need to get Qmail up and running so I can host my own email. I followed the qmail LEAF/LRP user's guide but I am missing something. If I use a windows mail client to send

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Kory Krofft
Ray, See below snipped failures actually are DNS-based delays, is the right guess ... and that quite a while is around 3 minutes. It takes about a minute and a half to get a response with telnet. What to do about it? First, maybe your mail server can be configured not to do reverse

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:22:20:24:44-0500] scribed: snip / I believe as Ray has mentioned that the major issue may be a reverse lookup that qmail is doing which causes the timeout error on the mail client. I am still looking into what dns settings I need to change to fix that

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:22:20:24:44-0500] scribed: snip / What is in these files: /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain kroffts.com /var/qmail/control/locals kroffts.com /var/qmail/control/rcpthosts kroffts.com Try watching output from the following while you attempt to

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
At 09:47 PM 12/22/2003 -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: [...] Currently, you are *NOT* authoritative and *CANNOT* assume authority for the kroffts.com domain: Actually, he can ... in a limited sense. In a way that matters, DNS is just a shared delusion, and as long as he lies about it only when

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Kory Krofft
Lynn, See below I believe as Ray has mentioned that the major issue may be  a reverse lookup that qmail is doing which causes the timeout error on the mail client. I am still looking into what dns settings I need to change to fix that possibility. I was assuming that all the qmail doc I've

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Kory Krofft
Michael, cat /etc/tcp.smtp gives 127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= 192.168.:allow,RELAYCLIENT= Kory On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 21:51:31 -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:22:20:24:44-0500] scribed: snip / What is in these files: /var/qmail/control/defaultdomain

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Kory Krofft
I understand much better now. I will try your suggestions tomorrow and report back. So the DMZ domain should NOT match the internet domain since the name itself ti registered at dnsexit. I take it then that the domain on the dmz could be kroffts.dmz as well as anything else I could choose to

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
Ray Olszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:22:20:08:14-0800] scribed: At 09:47 PM 12/22/2003 -0600, Michael D Schleif wrote: [...] Currently, you are *NOT* authoritative and *CANNOT* assume authority for the kroffts.com domain: Actually, he can ... in a limited sense. In a way that matters,

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-22 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:22:23:30:12-0500] scribed: I understand much better now. I will try your suggestions tomorrow and report back. So the DMZ domain should NOT match the internet domain since the name itself ti registered at dnsexit. I take it then that the domain on the

[leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Kory Krofft
I have successfully set up my DMZ, registered a domain, compiled a custom version of ez-ipupdate to handle a non standard service, reconfigured weblet to act as a basic web content server. I now need to get Qmail up and running so I can host my own email. I followed the qmail LEAF/LRP user's

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Lynn Avants
Kory, I haven't set up Qmail on a LEAF system, but from regular Linux distributions I'm not sure your likely looking for the most common problems. Typically, each user must have a directory that contains a ~/Maildir folder rather than a global directory (one user?). POP3 is quite a bit of a PITA

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Kory Krofft
Lynn, Please forgive my lack of experience but I don't quite follow all the terms. I have the proper Maildir set up for the admin account (lrpqmail) and it receives the mail sent to it from the internet as proven by my ability to see the message in the ~Maildir/new directory. I believe I may

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Kory Krofft
Ray, Sorry I was not clearer about the overall config. Comments inline. Kory -- Because (I think) your setup involves two separate LEAF systems -- one running as a router/firewall, the other as a DMZ/Qmail server -- you might want to be a bit clearer about which system you are reporting each

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Kory Krofft
Ray, I was able to connect to the pop server using telnet it seemed to take quite a while to get a response but I was able to retreive and read the test message sent to lrpqmail. I don't know your setup well enough to tell you what is going on in the Shorewall DROP log, but since it involves

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Lynn Avants
On Sunday 21 December 2003 08:32 pm, Kory Krofft wrote: Ray, I was able to connect to the pop server using telnet it seemed to take quite a while to get a response but I was able to retreive and read the test message sent to lrpqmail. Then the mail server is working correctly and you have

Re: [leaf-user] Qmail questions

2003-12-21 Thread Michael D Schleif
Kory Krofft [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003:12:21:12:53:56-0500] scribed: I have successfully set up my DMZ, registered a domain, compiled a custom version of ez-ipupdate to handle a non standard service, reconfigured weblet to act as a basic web content server. I now need to get Qmail up and