[luau] NAT, postfix woes

[Myles Uyema]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, eXt wrote:

>  > Vague, general questions will receive vague, general answers.
> 
> > 
> > What errors do your PCs get when they discover "no Internet"?
> > Do your PCs get a DNS server or a gateway address through DHCP?
> > Run either "ipconfig /all" or "winipcfg" depending on
> > the Windows OS.
> 
> It gets the "This Page cannot be displayed"
> I had tried the ipconfig /all already, it gives me the machine's IP and then it lists the linux box's (LAN)ip as gateway, DHCP SRVR and DNS SRVR
Okay, then since the LAN network settings look to be okay, then next 
step is to configure the Linux firewall/router to properly forward 
traffic to/from your internal LAN.  Check the "Linux newbie" thread 
which is currently discussing MonMotha's firewall script and quick setup 
of a Linux router.

Someone else is going to have to work through this one.  I don't have 
any postfix experience.  I've only used sendmail.
> 
> > Look in /var/log/* for error messages and try to post some >relevant logs.
> 
> I looked at the log and it just repeats this :
> Oct 23 21:18:02 Server postfix/pickup[28980]: fatal: bad string length (0  Look in /var/log/* for error messages and try to post some relevant 
This one looks bad, possibly a misconfiguration.  Stock Redhat Install?

> > logs.
> The Warnings log in /var/mail/      has this on it:
> 
> Oct 20 05:01:03 Server postfix/smtp[32143]: warning: host smtp.latiendita.biz[66.8.154.239] greeted me with my own hostname Server.LaTiendita.biz
> Oct 20 05:01:03 Server postfix/smtp[32143]: warning: host smtp.latiendita.biz[66.8.154.239] replied to HELO/EHLO with my own hostname Server.LaTiendita.biz
> 
> Oct 20 06:58:07 Server postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/localtime and /etc/localtime differ
> Oct 20 06:58:07 Server postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/hosts and /etc/hosts differ
> Oct 20 06:58:07 Server postfix/postfix-script: warning: /var/spool/postfix/etc/host.conf and /etc/host.conf differ
> 
> Oct 23 21:21:07 Server postfix/master[3424]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 29000 exit status 1
> Oct 23 21:21:07 Server postfix/master[3424]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
This one also looks like a misconfiguration, possibly sending bad 
parameters to start the daemon.

> 
> it just repeats those lines