Unable to telnet to port 110

Daniel Carrillo daniel.carrillo at gmail.com
Sat Aug 6 14:36:58 UTC 2005


El vie, 05-08-2005 a las 13:45 -0700, Raj Atwal escribió:
> I have configured pop3 and postfix on my RH server, but I am unable to make a pop3 connection from any client to the server. 
>  
> On the server itself I can successfully telnet to the pop3 port 110. 
>  
> eg: 
> telnet localhost 110 
> Trying 127.0.0.1... 
> Connected to localhost. 
> Escape character is '^]'. 
> +OK POP3 localhost.localdomain v2003.83rh server ready 
> ^] 
> telnet> quit 
> Connection closed. 
>  
> However from another linux client I am unable to telnet to port 110, I recieve the following error 
>  
> telnet 192.168.205.224 110 
> Trying 192.168.205.224... 
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host 
>  
> Yet I can telnet to other ports from my client server to the same linux postfix/pop3 server.
>  
> IPTables is turned off and I have tried using the /etc/hosts.allow file by setting the following
>  
> ipop3d: ALL
>  
> with no luck. I ran tcpdump and on the pop3 server and I can see my client linux machine attempting to make a connection on port 110  but beyond that I don't where I am being denied access.
>  

Hi.

The error shows: telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to
host 

Maybe the client machine has no route to the pop3 server ?
Is there any router (or similar) between them ?
Can you explain your network topology ?

Regards.
>  
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
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