> On 17 May 2019, at 5:07 pm, Peter Pentchev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 01:54:47PM +1000, James Brown wrote: >> Can anyone tell me why It tries ::1:25 first and fails before connecting to >> 127.0.0.1:25? >> >> 2019.05.17 13:48:34 LOG5[21]: Service [ssmtp465] accepted connection from >> ::ffff:192.168.1.76:49170 >> 2019.05.17 13:48:34 LOG3[21]: s_connect: connect ::1:25: Connection refused >> (61) >> 2019.05.17 13:48:34 LOG5[21]: s_connect: connected 127.0.0.1:25 >> 2019.05.17 13:48:34 LOG5[21]: Service [ssmtp465] connected remote server >> from 127.0.0.1:56701 >> >> /usr/local/etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf has: >> >> [ssmtp465] >> client = no >> accept = 465 >> connect = 25 >> options = NO_SSLv2 >> #transparent = source > > You have specified only a port number, not an address; thus, stunnel assumes > the local host address. You have not explicitly told it to only use IPv4 > addresses, so it tries the IPv6 local host address (::1) first; when that > fails, it falls back to the IPv4 local host address (127.0.0.1). > > If you change the line to "connect = 127.0.0.1:25" like for your other > service, it will go straight to the IPv4 local host address. > > Hope that helps! > > G'luck, > Peter
Perfect, that worked - Thanks Peter (Obvious now that I think of it!) James.
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