Greetings,
Apparently my Postfix which has been running fine for the last three months suddenly and mysteriously broke.
In my mail log I am receiving the following error messages:
<snip>
May 29 03:03:48 bocacentral postfix/master[22144]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
May 29 03:03:51 bocacentral postfix[28179]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for 69.50.160.213
May 29 03:04:22 bocacentral postfix[3657]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for 69.50.160.213
May 29 03:26:27 bocacentral postfix[32672]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for 69.50.160.213
May 29 03:31:01 bocacentral postfix[6140]: fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for 69.50.160.213
</snip>
I looked everywhere, particularly main.cf and master.cf, hosts, etc. and the config files appear to have my correct and valid IP addressing.
It seems Postfix will not even start because if I go to /etc/init.d and try to manually restart Postfix it throws a similar error.
I am also running Apache on this box and that seems to be fine...I can access any web pages via URL without having to specify IP.
Where is Posftix getting this bogus IP address??? How can I fix it? And the big question, would someone please enlighten me as to how this could have happened to begin with.
The only recent "changes" I am aware of are an increase in disk space and memory to my VPS, but to the best of my knowledge that is all.
Thanks!

can you show us your config and the ifconfig output on your system? seems you have a line that reads "inet_interfaces = 69.x.y.z" when that IP is not on your actual server.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for your reply.
Here are the results of my ifconfig:
<snip>
bocacentral:~# ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:3380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1013889 (990.1 KiB) TX bytes:1013889 (990.1 KiB)

venet0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:68899 (67.2 KiB) TX bytes:71504 (69.8 KiB)

venet0:0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:206.123.89.201 P-t-P:206.123.89.201 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP BROADCAST POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:
</snip>

Here are the contents of my main.cf:
<snip>
# See /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist for a commented, more complete version


# Debian specific: Specifying a file name will cause the first
# line of that file to be used as the name. The Debian default
# is /etc/mailname.
#myorigin = /etc/mailname

smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name (Debian/GNU)
biff = no

# appending .domain is the MUA's job.
append_dot_mydomain = no

# Uncomment the next line to generate "delayed mail" warnings
delay_warning_time = 4h

# TLS parameters
smtpd_tls_cert_file=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem
smtpd_tls_key_file=/etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
smtpd_use_tls=yes
smtpd_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtpd_scache
smtp_tls_session_cache_database = btree:${queue_directory}/smtp_scache

# See /usr/share/doc/postfix/TLS_README.gz in the postfix-doc package for
# information on enabling SSL in the smtp client.

myhostname = mail.bocacentral.com
mydomain = bocacentral.com
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mail/aliases, hash:/var/lib/mailman/data/aliases
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
myorigin = /etc/mailname
mydestination =$myhostname, $mydomain
relayhost =
relay_domains = $mydestination, bocacentral.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.1, 206.123.89.201
mailbox_command = procmail -a "$EXTENSION"
mailbox_size_limit = 0
recipient_delimiter = +
inet_interfaces = ALL
alltransport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
mailman_destination_recipient_limit = 1
</snip>

Thanks,
B

I just had this problem. I have about three different websites running on my server and just removed one but forgot to update the postfix main.cf file. Somehow postfix detected that the domain I removed was no longer attached to my nameservers and caused the problem. After removing the domain it worked.

I saw an interesting piece of information here. Perhaps there is some old configuration information that it is still getting.

Also take a look here. BTW, I googled for "fatal: parameter inet_interfaces: no local interface found for" with quotes and found that this seems to be fairly common symptom, but many causes. It seems that there may be some IPV6 issues. I noticed that your interfaces looks unusual, with the loopback interface and a virtual loopback interface, but no physical ones. I suspect this is because of your VPS.