fail to telnet localhost 106

[satimis]

Hi folks,


Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64


On running;

$ telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused



$ netstat -an | grep 106
$ sudo netstat -an | grep 106
both no printout


Pls advise where shall I check and how to fix the problem. TIA


P.S.
1)
confirmed with ISP port 106 is open

2)
I'm adding "change password" plugin on SquirrelMail. After installing poppassd on repo I tested it whether works according to /usr/local/squirrelmail/www/plugins/change_pass/INSTALL
Be sure to test and make certain your poppass daemon is working properly.
To test, try telneting into the daemon and changing a password:

$ telnet localhost 106
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
200 poppassd v1.8.1 hello, who are you?
user <username>
200 Your password please.
pass <oldpassword>
200 Your new password please.
newpass <newpassword>
200 Password changed, thank-you.
quit
200 Bye.
Connection closed by foreign host.






B.R.
satimis

[koenn]

try telnetting the real address of the machine in stead of 127.0.01

[satimis]

try telnetting the real address of the machine in stead of 127.0.01
Sorry I telnet on the same machine


satimis

[koenn]

Sorry I telnet on the same machine

I know.
That machine has an IP address nonetheless (or it should have, otherwise it's not goung to handle much mail).

run ifconfig
it tells you the IP address. use that to telnet.
There's a good change that whatever you have listening at port 106 is listening on the address of your network interface, not on the loopback interface (aka localhost).

[satimis]

I know.
That machine has an IP address nonetheless (or it should have, otherwise it's not goung to handle much mail).

run ifconfig
it tells you the IP address. use that to telnet.
There's a good change that whatever you have listening at port 106 is listening on the address of your network interface, not on the loopback interface (aka localhost).
I see.


$ telnet 192.168.0.10 106
Trying 192.168.0.10...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused



$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:A6:F9:A3:5B
inet addr:192.168.0.10 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20e:a6ff:fef9:a35b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:37102 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28733 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:37939499 (36.1 MiB) TX bytes:4984171 (4.7 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x8000
.....


satimis

[koenn]

I'm 80% sure there's nothing listening at port 106 - thats most often the cause of a "connection refused".
. I suppose you're already running squirellmail ? Maybe you have to restart it to activate the plugin ?

[satimis]

I'm 80% sure there's nothing listening at port 106 - thats most often the cause of a "connection refused".
. I suppose you're already running squirellmail ? Maybe you have to restart it to activate the plugin ?
SM is now working w/o problem. I have restarted it many times.


satimis

[syadnom]

any solution here? i have installed poppassd but dont know how to start it daemonized. i have nothing listening on port 106 according to netstat -na|grep "LISTEN"

[satimis]

any solution here? i have installed poppassd but dont know how to start it daemonized. i have nothing listening on port 106 according to netstat -na|grep "LISTEN"
Hi,


I solved my problem by fiddling around on iptables rules. It was the cause of my problem. Please run following commands;

iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT
iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

(if having nat and mangle, add following commands after "iptable -X"
iptables -t nat -F
iptables -t nat -X
iptables -t mangle -F
iptables -t mangle -X

)

If it works then the problem comes on the rules.


B.R.
satimis

[syadnom]

I figured it out, I just had to add openbsd-inetd to startup(with sysv-rc-conf). it wouldnt work until I rebooted also.