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Re: Unable to accept connection from client on the same subnet

From: Andre Costa (costatecgraf.puc-rio.br)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 06:56:07 CDT

Hi Magnus,

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:31:29 +0200
Magnus Bäck <magnusdsek.lth.se> wrote:

> On Monday, July 12, 2004 at 13:26 CEST,
> Andre Costa <costatecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> > this should be simple, but I am stuck: our network has a primary MX,
> > but my box has a working postfix because I need to send some
> > messages from it (I have a local installation of GForge
> > [www.gforge.org]). I would like to configure my local postfix to
> > accept incoming connections from this very same MX server, but I
> > can't make it work.
>
> [...]
>
> > inet_interfaces = localhost
>
> You're only listening on the loopback interface.
>
> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#inet_interfaces

Damn! It _was_ simple -- thks for pointing that out, my bad.

(... I knew it was going to be stupid, but I can't help feeling
embarassed ;) )

I set inet_interfaces to

inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost

and that did the trick.

Thks a lot,

Andre

--
Andre Oliveira da Costa
(costatecgraf.puc-rio.br)