telnet on local LAN question

[Paul Allen Newell]

On 8/18/2011 9:49 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
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>
> Your earlier email indicates that to solve the mail/mailx between 
> machines, I need comment out that line in sendmail.mc and I will get 
> the results you indicated. Sure worth a try, let me give it a go.
>
Craig:

I comment out the 127.0.0.1 line in sendmail.mc as suggested, did a 
service sendmail restart

I added a line in access for "Connect:192.168.2 RELAY" to match the 
format of the existing entries. All the other entries were Relay and so 
were all the online docs I could find.

I did this on two machines (sender and receiver)

I did a mail from one machine to another and got a "No route to host".

I then did a service iptables stop and tried again ... got a "Connection 
refused"

Netstat -an | grep 25 gives me the same output as your email shows. 
Iptables -L also gives me the same output.

Either I missed something in your email(s) or I am back to the concern 
that "I am doing what I should do but something is blocking" ... which 
is what I am trying to sort out with the telnet test.

If you need attachments / output from my system, let me know and I will 
forward.

If I am taking up too much of your bandwidth I will understand if you 
bail on this. I feel like I might be in over my head (aka: dense) and 
I'm just not getting it

Thanks,
Paul

ps: I hope there are no typos in this or my tests ... I double-checked 
but my track record isn't that good