On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 10:01 +0000, rado wrote: > > > > > > yes rivers-bend.com is my domain. yes, in my zone files it's called out > > > as IN mail.rivers-bend.com. and mail.rivers-bend.com 209.205.179.141(my > > > static ip). I can't "dig" it from the outside but you should be able to > > > do: $ dig mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx well I could do it from a dial-up I > > > guess but it's illegal to go both ways thru the router like that. > > > Yes, 209.205.179.141 is the public ip for the FC3 host when it's > > > running. the sendmail on that machine,(fc3) is sendmail-8.13.1-2. > > > sendmail on this machine,(fc2) fully updated is: sendmail-8.12.11-4.6 > > > > > John Rose > > > > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:41:55 +0100 > > From: Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> > > > I must confess that somewhere you lost me. What is your problem? You > > expect mail coming into your Sendmail on the FC3 host which has no DNS > > entry? Or is that one a backend MTA? Sorry, I don't understand what you > > wonder about and what you tried to configure so far. > > > > Alexander > > Hi Alexander, > ...sorry if I confused you; let me see if I can clarify. > > rivers-bend.com is my domain w/a public ip of 209.205.179.141 > > This box right here is rbmain1 [10.0.0.10] running on fc2 which is fully > updated. It's running dns, sendmail 8.12.11-4.6, dovecot, and other > things w/no problems. > > the box w/problems is rbmain2 [10.0.0.12] running on fc3 w/no updating > yet. > My intentions are to mirror 10.0.0.10 w/10.0.0.12. After it's all set > up, I'll probably use rsync or something to sync up the 2 machines and > if/when 10.0.0.10 ever goes down, just run a script on 10.0.0.12 and it > will take over. > > Now, while setting 10.0.0.12 up, presently I shut down 10.0.0.10 because > I don't have scripts in place yet. While 10.0.0.10 is down, dns in > 10.0.0.12 takes over and works fine. > > Now the problem: using evolution, I can mail to myself i.e. from: > rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to:rivers-bend.com and it will pop fine. > I can send mail out to my hotmail acct: radopowder@xxxxxxxxxxx, and it > is received...I reply from hotmail to rado@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, and it never > comes. Mind you this is in the fc3 sys, [10.0.0.12]. > ok, let's shut down 10.0.0.12 now. > > bring up 10.0.0.10... that's this box. the email reply that I was trying > to receive in 10.0.0.12 shows up here in 10.0.0.10. > > Somehow mail is being stopped from being received on 10.0.0.12. > here's a list of my open ports: > > [root@rbmain2 ~]# nmap -sT rbmain2 > > 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 > > Don't forget, Alexander, 10.0.0.12 is only up while I'm working on it. > when I need to check email like this msg list, I have to shut down > 10.0.0.12 and bring up this machine, 10.0.0.10. I also monitor my > hotmail acct. regularly radopowder@xxxxxxxxxxx which could be used for > testing communication. That's always up. > > Ok, I hope this clears it up. Alexander, if you want to see logs or > testing please just ask. > thx, > John Rose > > -- > Trust Everyone. Just make sure you brand your cattle. > > John, What happens if you set the IP address of your FC3 box to 10.0.0.10? Earlier you said that you were not running NAT, how can this be if you are using a 10.x.x.x private IP addresses? On my DSL modem I must either pass-thru it's public IP to my Linux host or pass port 25 traffic to the masqueraded IP address. Bob...
