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Monitoring tools are not monitoring smtp

I have a weird problem which is not monitoring smtp service that is running on linux box.

The problem is if i configure any monitoring tools like sitescope and any free websites like...http://mon.itor.us/

is showing smtp is failed even it is running in the Linux box ..

what will it be the problem? Please assist me

Pétur Ingi Egilsson

A firewall?

jaisonshereen

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yes..but my firewall configuration seems like it is accepting smtp port 25 .
Please verify from your side:

[root@Server01 sysconfig]# cat iptables
# Firewall configuration written by system-config-securitylevel
# Manual customization of this file is not recommended.
*filter
:INPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:FORWARD ACCEPT [0:0]
:OUTPUT ACCEPT [0:0]
:RH-Firewall-1-INPUT - [0:0]
-A INPUT -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A FORWARD -j RH-Firewall-1-INPUT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p icmp --icmp-type any -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 50 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p 51 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp --dport 5353 -d 224.xx.0.xx -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 631 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT
#-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
COMMIT
[root@Server01 sysconfig]#

Pétur Ingi Egilsson

I would think the reject rule has to come before the accept rules ? ..

Pétur Ingi Egilsson

Sorry i was wrong.

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