"Connection refused"

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 07:14:43PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 15, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >	I must have bumped into this before, but it still stumps me.
> >	What would my sendmail on   sage/ns1.thought.org get a
> >	"Connection refused" from my major server, tao.thought.org?
> >	Mail is queued in ns1.
> 
> DNS for that address is broken, so sendmail on the other machine is 
> unable to get a valid a record to make a connection, so you get 
> "connection refused":
> 

	tao is on my private 10.0.0.247 IP.   I *have* added 
	ns1.thought.org to my /etc/mail/access file and did a 
	"# make maps"; I also reinitialized sendmail.  

	Still get "Connection refused"  /etc/hosts* andn
	/etc/resolv.conf look good.  What else??


	gary



> 5-pi% dig tao.thought.org.
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> tao.thought.org.
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21895
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;tao.thought.org.               IN      A
> 
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> thought.org.            600     IN      SOA     ns1.thought.org. 
> hostmaster.thought.org. 2005021201 3600 300 2419200 3600
> 
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 

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   Gary Kline     kline at thought.org   www.thought.org     Public service Unix