Same iptables works for REH does not work in Fedora 14

inbayarea2010 · 02-08-2011, 03:02 PM

Howdy,

Everything works except on Fedora port 110 cannot be opened no matter how hard we try, we run REH (Redhat Linux) on a colocated server, now we run Fedora in a cloud

Any idea?

Thanks for your help,

EZ

repo · 02-08-2011, 03:03 PM

Is the service running?

Kind regards

acid_kewpie · 02-08-2011, 03:14 PM

Since when was REH and abbreviation for redhat? seen it a few times now... Odd.

You saw you've tried things, but not what those things are. Please give us as much information as you can, so you csn get the best help. It certainly is a common thing for new users to think they need to do something magical to open a port, when outside of a firewall rule it doesn't make any sense.

inbayarea2010 · 02-08-2011, 07:01 PM

Thanks for all of your attention

Yes, the server is running, both ssh (port 22) and smtp (port 25) are open by netstat -a, port 110 cannot be opened, telnet port 25 is fine while 110 is refused to connect

REH I do not know exact version, very old Redhat version and non-enterprise version

inbayarea2010 · 02-09-2011, 01:05 AM

On REH, port 110 is visible via xinetd, in Fedora 14, there is no xinetd, even after I installed and started its service, port 110 is still invisble, why?

acid_kewpie · 02-09-2011, 03:44 AM

OK, you're not runnign a pop3 service are you? By asking if it was running, he didn't mean the physical machine, but a service to listen on port 110 in the first place. It makes no sense to say "the port will not open"... it doesn't work like that. So, answer this - What is your pop3 server software? dovecot? qpopper?

inbayarea2010 · 02-09-2011, 01:46 PM

Now with dovecot, port 110 is now visible (actually opened all the time)

I use pop3 to post at wordpress by email, there were only 3 posts got pushed after I got pop3 working, no more, why?

Feb 9 11:33:02 * dovecot: pop3-login: Login: user=<*>, method=PLAIN, rip=*, lip=*, mpid=21118, secured
Feb 9 11:40:01 * dovecot: pop3-login: Disconnected: Logged out top=0/0, retr=0/0, del=0/0, size=0