Am 18.10.2010 22:38, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 22:34, Steve Clark <sclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hmm... I am not having any problem connecting from the U.S. >> >> ping 178.63.65.136 >> PING 178.63.65.136 (178.63.65.136) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from 178.63.65.136: icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=140 ms >> 64 bytes from 178.63.65.136: icmp_seq=2 ttl=49 time=142 ms >> 64 bytes from 178.63.65.136: icmp_seq=3 ttl=49 time=138 ms >> >> telnet 178.63.65.136 25 >> Trying 178.63.65.136... >> Connected to 178.63.65.136. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> ^] >> telnet> close >> Connection closed. >> > > Exactly the problem! It pings fine (so I know that connections can be > established over the physical wires) and on the IP address telnet > answers. However, telnet to port 25 (smtp) with the domain name fails. > Why could that be? Sorry, your problem is not DNS. The MX resolves. But if you talk to an MTA on port 25 you must get a greeting - that does not happen. Instead the connection hangs. While your www server works: ~ $ telnet 178.63.65.136 80 Trying 178.63.65.136... Connected to static.136.65.63.178.clients.your-server.de (178.63.65.136). Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:54:23 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:00:56 GMT ETag: "c7a1c2-28-4e88b200" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 40 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><body>Hello, world!</body></html> Connection closed by foreign host. ~ $ telnet sharingcenter.eu 80 Trying 178.63.65.136... Connected to sharingcenter.eu (178.63.65.136). Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:55:16 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:00:56 GMT ETag: "c7a1c2-28-4e88b200" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 40 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><body>Hello, world!</body></html> Connection closed by foreign host. I expect that even being local on the server(s) and running "telnet localhost 25" results in a hung connection. You misconfigured your Postfix. Check your /var/log/maillog/ for startup errors. By any chance, did you bring down loopback or destroyed the localhost mapping in /etc/hosts? Or you have something broken in your main.cf. Post the output of "postconf -n". Alexander _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos