From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert_at_13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue 31 May 2005 - 11:00:00 BST
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:42:48AM -0700, gary ng wrote:
> But the problem is not when I am connecting to it, it
> cannot even start up, just the following error and it
> aborts. May be exim4 may be something that falls into
> the category of "what doesn't work under vserver".
>
> =====================================================
> 2005-05-31 01:35:31 socket bind() to port 25 for
> address (any IPv4) failed: Address already in use:
> waiting before trying again
[duplicates zapped]
well, did you check that port 25 isn't already
in use on the host? could be that a mail server
is running on the host too?
(if so, restricting that one to an IP which is
not assigned to the guest would help a lot ;)
HTH,
Herbert
> ====================================================
>
> --- Herbert Poetzl <herbert_at_13thfloor.at> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 02:06:49AM -0700, gary ng
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am having some strange problem with exim4 in
> > 1.2.10.
> > > If I don't specify address/interface for it to
> > bind,
> > > it would try all address and stalled at 127.0.0.1.
> > I
> > > can only tell it to bind the assigned ip.
> > >
> > > But for other service like sshd/slapd, it seems
> > that
> > > it works as expected, i.e. I can access both the
> > > assigned ip as well as 127.0.0.1.
> >
> > probably _all_ ips work, just exim might be
> > 'confused'
> > by local connections comming from <guest ip> instead
> > of 127.0.0.1 (which is absolutely fine regarding
> > linux
> > networking, but a little unusual for apps doing
> > dubious
> > security checks)
> >
> > > What would be the possible cause for this ?
> >
> > linux-vserver with the legacy networking does a
> > remapping
> > of 127.0.0.1 to the first IP assigned to a guest ...
> >
> > best,
> > Herbert
> >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > gary
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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