<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">No DHCP. The machine has a fixed IP address (as it is the server on the LAN for various servers that have to be told a IP address to connect to)<div><br></div><div>This was a SIP/ALF issue.</div><div><br></div><div>G</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 26 Jan 2024, at 01:21, Steven Smith <steve.t.smith@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Sounds like a DHCP issue on your router that was cleared up after a reboot.<div><br></div><div>I’d recommend trying togging the network interface off/on the next time that happens, or rebooting the router.<br><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 24, 2024, at 12:19 PM, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I can after some more testing confirm:<div><br></div><div>- After turning of SIP, it works</div><div>- After then turning SIP on again, it still works (?!?!?!)</div><div><br></div><div>So, turning SIP off and on again cleared something.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 24 Jan 2024, at 16:18, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello people,<div><br></div><div>I am currently making an attempt to run various ports on macOS Sonoma (mail server stuff, like postfix, dovecot, installed by MacPorts) and I am running into a problem. </div><div><br></div><div><div>From inside the machine itself, everything is fine. I can connect to the ports using nc</div></div><div><br></div><div>But from another machine on my LAN I cannot. It simply times out when I try</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>nc -v -z <sonoma-machine-ip> 993</div><div><br></div><div>from any other machine on the LAN. But on the machine itself it works. The process is running, it is listening to the correct port. I have used Murus (PF configurator/logger) to see that the connection from the outside is actually made. I tried Vallum (ALF configurator) to see what I could do/see.</div><div><br></div><div>At one point I had postfix reacting to connections from outside the Mac, but not dovecot. Then I tried to change everything back and try again, now postfix isn't accepting connections either and I don't remember what I exactly did.</div><div><br></div><div>Two questions:</div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>how do I expose MacPorts dovecot to the outside?</li></ul></div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>how do I find out what part of Sonoma is stopping the connection and why?</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>Help?</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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