Dear SLUG Oracle, I have recently ugraded a mail server to RH7.2 taking the opportunity to upgrate to postfix 1.1.4-2. Now my mail log is full of 'lost connection after CONNECT' messages such as these;
Mar 6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: connect from murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6] Mar 6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: lost connection after CONNECT from murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6] Mar 6 12:10:27 gsbme-lx040 postfix/smtpd[5080]: disconnect from murphy.debian.org[216.234.231.6] This is anoying, but mail does seem to be trickling in (nothing from murphy.debian.org though!). More alarmingly, my outgoing mail spool is backing up... nothing seems to be getting out. The output of mailq contains notes like this for each message; (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[216.136.129.17]: server dropped connection) I'm not sure if this is a postfix problem, or a more generic networking problem. When I ftp to some sites, my connection is dumped, i.e. #ftp mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au Connected to mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au (129.94.242.25). 220 orff.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU FTP server (Version 6.2/OpenBSD/Linux-0.10) ready. Name (mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au:root): anonymous 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection Login failed. No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not connected ftp> exit Wah?? "No control connection for command: Transport endpoint is not connected"?? Any suggestions? Shaun -- Shaun Cloherty Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering University of New South Wales Phone: +61 2 9385 3916 Fax: +61 2 9663 2108 Mobile: 0412 658521 WWW: http://www.gsbme.unsw.edu.au/~shaunc -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
