[CentOS] Could not connect to host box.domain.tld

Thu Jan 24 18:59:15 UTC 2008
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>

On Thursday 24 January 2008 16:38:49 Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 16:30 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>
> this is what I was responding to...
>
> > > > # telnet localhost 110
> > > > ..
> > > > # telnet localhost 143
> > > > ..
> > >
> > > Both these produce ''Temporary failure in name resolution'.
>
> so it seemed obvious that at some point, you had a defective /etc/hosts
> because if dovecot were not running, that wouldn't be the message. For
> example, this is what happens when I do this from a CentOS 5 server that
> isn't running POP3/IMAP server...
>
> # telnet localhost 110
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
> # telnet localhost 143
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
>
You know how difficult it is to try to remember the exact sequence of events, 
once it's over, but yes - I got that as well, a little later.  Right now I 
can't remember what happened in between.

Meanwhile, although dovecot is now running, all is not well.  I posted the 
details to the dovecot list, where I was told that 1.0.rc15 is old, and I 
should upgrade to 1.0.10, the latest stable release.  I'm doing yum updates, 
so I presume that if this package is available for CentOS I would have to 
look for a 'testing' repository.  Any advice there?

Anne

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