On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:05:02 -0400 (EDT) [email protected] (Wietse Venema) wrote:
> Janos Dohanics: > > em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 > > mtu 1500 > > options=209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC> > > ether 00:16:3e:6f:18:c9 inet 199.102.77.98 netmask 0xfffffff8 > > broadcast 199.102.77.103 inet6 fe80::216:3eff:fe6f:18c9%em0 > > prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 inet 199.102.77.99 netmask 0xfffffff8 > > broadcast 199.102.77.103 inet 199.102.77.100 netmask 0xfffffff8 > > broadcast 199.102.77.103 inet 199.102.77.101 netmask 0xfffffff8 > > broadcast 199.102.77.103 inet 199.102.77.102 netmask 0xfffffff8 > > broadcast 199.102.77.103 nd6 > > options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > > # postconf inet_interfaces > > inet_interfaces = 199.102.77.99, localhost > > > > # postconf smtp_bind_address > > smtp_bind_address = > > > > And on the destination server, the mail log says: > > > > Jun 5 19:23:52 barrida postfix/smtpd[57612]: connect from > > smtpc.telissant.net[199.102.77.99] > > > > Can you explain? > > Perhaps your kernel picks a random IP address from five identically > configured addresses. My FreeBSD9 box has netmasks of 0xffffffff > on all IP address "aliases". > > Perhaps you have smtp_bind_address in master.cf where it is typically > used. That's precisely the case... as I suspected, I was missing something. Thank you all for your help. -- Janos Dohanics
