[Dovecot] No localhost after reboot

[Matthias Andree]

"Bob Hall" <rjhjr at cox.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 03:57:30AM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 20:47, Bob Hall wrote:
>> > 	imap_listen = *
>> 
>> What does "netstat -na|grep 143" say with this?
>
> It says that the server is listening at that port and there are 
> users connected, but that's on the LAN interface. There's no 
> mention of 127.0.0.1. If I try to open a connection from the 
> command line, netstat reports SYN_SENT to 127.0.0.1:143, but 
> there's no response and no connection is established.

Check your firewall settings and make sure your loopback device is up
and configured and working. Check /etc/resolv.conf and DNS servers
perhaps.

SYN_SENT shouldn't happen for loopback connections.

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Matthias Andree