Mailman stopped working after changing IP address
Hi, After I changed the ip address of my linux box, mailman stopped working. (Our ISP assigned us a new IP number range). I have changed the hosts file and rerun the m4 sendmail.mc config script. But somewhere I have missed something. I created a new test list and tried to subscribe to it through the web interface but I get no response from it. There are a
lot of files piling up in /home/mailman/qfiles
None of the lists (I have 4) will forward messages or allow new subscriptions. Can anyone help??
Walter Stafford
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Walter Stafford Director of Computer Services Boston Biomedical Research Institute 64 Grove Street Watertown, MA 02472 USA
Main: 617-658-7700 Direct: 617-658-7808 Fax: 617-972-1753
mailto:stafford@bbri.org http://www.bbri.org/
On Friday 30 August 2002 10:36 am, Walter Stafford wrote:
Hi, After I changed the ip address of my linux box, mailman stopped working. (Our ISP assigned us a new IP number range). I have changed the hosts file and rerun the m4 sendmail.mc config script. But somewhere I have missed something. I created a new test list and tried to subscribe to it through the web interface but I get no response from it. There are a
lot of files piling up in /home/mailman/qfiles
None of the lists (I have 4) will forward messages or allow new subscriptions. Can anyone help??
Walter Stafford
There's a few reasons that this could be happening (none relating to Mailman that I know of) A> Your DNS records haven't bounced back to you yet (in some cases this can take up to 3d to filter through the 'net). Personally, I use EveryDNS, with a perl monitor every hour or so. They manage to get the ip back and registered usually in < an hour and in some cases MUCH less.
B> Your OLD I.P. address is hardcoded into your MTA somewhere (I believe PARTS of qmail do this (depending on your distro)).
C> You somehow have your old I.P. address set in your O.S. some other way.
TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms Mud: http://dreamless.wolfstream.net Snippets http://dreamless.wolfstream.net/ Telnet dreamless.wolfstream.net:9275 The OLC Pages http://olc.wolfstream.net
Hi Tom.
It turned out that I had unwittingly deleted from the hosts file the line 127.0.0.1 my_server.bbri.org localhost
Once I added that back, all the emails that were being held were processed correctly by crond and sendmail. But I had had multiple problems: before that I couldn't get the posts to appear or the subscription requests to show up until I reset some permissions to what they should be in the Mailman directories. So this was a two step process. I had also impetuously reinstalled Mailman as root accidently and that caused problems too until I re-installed it as mailman and then reset the owner/group correctly...
Your clues were quite helpful; they got me on the right track. Thanks.
Walter
At 10:49 -0500 8/30/02, Tom Whiting wrote:
On Friday 30 August 2002 10:36 am, Walter Stafford wrote:
Hi, After I changed the ip address of my linux box, mailman stopped working. (Our ISP assigned us a new IP number range). I have changed the hosts file and rerun the m4 sendmail.mc config script. But somewhere I have missed something. I created a new test list and tried to subscribe to it through the web interface but I get no response from it. There are a
lot of files piling up in /home/mailman/qfiles
None of the lists (I have 4) will forward messages or allow new subscriptions. Can anyone help??
Walter Stafford
There's a few reasons that this could be happening (none relating to Mailman that I know of) A> Your DNS records haven't bounced back to you yet (in some cases this can take up to 3d to filter through the 'net). Personally, I use EveryDNS, with a perl monitor every hour or so. They manage to get the ip back and registered usually in < an hour and in some cases MUCH less.
B> Your OLD I.P. address is hardcoded into your MTA somewhere (I believe PARTS of qmail do this (depending on your distro)).
C> You somehow have your old I.P. address set in your O.S. some other way.
TJW: Head tech, Dreamless Realms Mud: http://dreamless.wolfstream.net Snippets http://dreamless.wolfstream.net/ Telnet dreamless.wolfstream.net:9275 The OLC Pages http://olc.wolfstream.net
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Walter Stafford Director of Computer Services Boston Biomedical Research Institute 64 Grove Street Watertown, MA 02472 USA
Main: 617-658-7700 Direct: 617-658-7808 Fax: 617-972-1753
mailto:stafford@bbri.org http://www.bbri.org/
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