On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:14:22AM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > > No idea. I thought that is recommended. I mean every machine should > > be able to access itself using all its IPs. > > That would mean "all IPs on all interfaces of the machine". It doesn't > include arbitrary IPs which some other machine may choose to translate to an > IP on this machine's interface. Let me rephrase it. A mail server needs to connect to any IP in the world so why cannot it connect to an IP which is in its subnet. Thanks a lot for the info. With warm regards, -Payal