> > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 03:22 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Mi, den 09.03.2005 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 2:46: > > > > > Is rivers-bend.com your domain? Then it has a valid MX enty in DNS, > > > pointing to mail.rivers-bend.com, which is IP mail.rivers-bend.com. Is > > > that the public IP address of your FC3 host? I doubt as the Sendmail on > > > that machines says to be 8.12.11 and FC3 ships with Sendmail 8.13.1. > > > > > > Alexander > > > > Sorry, the IP of mail.rivers-bend.com is of course no name, but from dig > > > > mail.rivers-bend.com. 5224 IN A 209.205.179.141 > > > > Alexander > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 06:45:33 -0500 > From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What about your firewall/router/NAT device? Are you passing the port 25 > packets to the correct internal address at the firewall? > > Bob... at times, I even tried disabling the firewall altogether but no change. the router is just a pass thru zoom dsl router and I am not using NAT anywhere. in the all of rivers-bend.com there is only one public ip: 209.205.179.141 when I am testing that fc3 machine, it's the only server up...dns is fine in that box as it is in this fc2 box I can telnet to port 25 for what it's worth... here is list of open ports using nmap: Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-09 08:05 CST Interesting ports on rbmain2.rivers-bend.com (10.0.0.12): (The 1654 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 25/tcp open smtp 53/tcp open domain 110/tcp open pop3 111/tcp open rpcbind 113/tcp open auth Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.283 seconds ...hoping this might shed little more light on all this. thx John Rose -- The only times my computer fails to come on is after I shut it off.