Re: Forwarding failures

["Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop_(_at_)_ninehells_(_dot_)_com>]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 12:30:59AM -0500, Chris Zakelj wrote:
> About a week ago, I noticed that ever since I moved my firewall between 
> apartments, I stopped getting daily reports.  Somewhere around Halloween 
> last year, I figured rather than log into the firewall every day or two, 
> it'd be easier to create a .forward file and send it to this address, 
> and it worked wonderfully.  However, moving seems to have upset the 
> system.  The *only* things that I changed were /etc/ppp/ppp.conf (to log 
> in using a new username/password, the ISP is the same), and /etc/pf.conf 
> (removed the internal class-based structures since I no longer have to 
> worry about sharing bandwidth with roommates, but left the external 
> priority-based rules intact).  I removed the .forward file, and the 
> spool promptly emptied into root's mail folder as it should, so I doubt 
> sendmail is broken.  This has stumped me for a week, since google and 
> MARC didn't turn up anything seemingly applicable, and other mail to 
> this address is coming through fine.
> 
> Error segment pulled from a message currently in the queue (observation: 
> they're *all* deferrals).  There's another server, orion.ieee.org, that 
> also shows up fairly often.  Both are ping-able, so I know they're out 
> there.
> 
>   ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> c_(_dot_)_zakelj_(_at_)_ieee_(_dot_)_org
>    (expanded from: <root_(_at_)_bbhhs96_(_dot_)_dyndns_(_dot_)_org>)
> 
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> c_(_dot_)_zakelj_(_at_)_ieee_(_dot_)_org_(_dot_)__(_dot_)__(_dot_)_ Deferred: Connection timed out with hormel.ieee.org.
> Message could not be delivered for 5 days
> Message will be deleted from queue

Can this box mail anywhere?

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