this time, it was user error (mine). :)
While multiple exchange boxes are helpful, sometimes having just 1
box to investigate when there is a problem can be a blessing!!! :)
At 12:58 AM 8/23/2007, Dean Cunningham wrote:
Umm. I only have one server :-) so bear with me as I assume we are just
sending and receiving email on port 25
I would assume a stop and start of the services (or server may be
required)
The other thing to check on the server would be to
telnet <ip address of mail relay> 25
(tips: see http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/PERL/node175.html for list of
commands)
you should get back something like
220 <mail relay> Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.1830
ready at Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:51:31 +1200
If you just get a :
Connecting To <ip address of mail relay...Could not open connection to
the host, on port 25: connect failed
Then you have a fundamental problem with network connectivity
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Stephen Reboulet
Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 16:44
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: Having an issue with outgoing emails staying in the smtp
connector queue
Thanks, I'll take a look at the pages.
The ipconfig /all does back with only the two internal DNS servers
listed, so I'm not sure where it's pulling the 68.87.71.226 address.
I've run nslookup on other servers and workstations in the Boston and
all resolve correctly.
As to the work around, should I enter that under: ESM - Admin Group
- Servers - Boston Mail Server - Protocols- SMTP- Default SMTP
(Properties) - Delivery - Advanced and enter the IP address of
another Exchange server as a Mail relay?
I added the ip address, but the server continues to sit on all of it's
email.
:
>The nslookup you did proves you have a problem with domain name
>resolution on the server. You do not have a problem with exchange per
se
>
>Do an ipconfig /all to see if the right dns servers are listed for the
>network connection.
>
>You may have a firewall issue on the server, router etc or the dns
>server does not consider the server part of the AD domain? I don't know
>if query refused means you got to the server and it refused it or you
>never got to the server
>
>Have look at
>http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/networking/dnsbind/ch11_07.htm
>This is unix specific but may be of some help
>
>Obtained from
>http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Query+refused%22+nslookup&rls=com.mic
r
>osoft:*&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
>
>Which will give you some links to work through to help you diagnose
>
>Quick solutions is that if on the boston server you have a
configuration
>to forward all emails to mainserver.krakhead.com change the config and
>use the *ipaddress* of mainserver.krakhead.com. this will bypass the
dns
>issue in the short term.
>
>hth
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>Stephen Reboulet
>Sent: Thursday, 23 August 2007 15:12
>To: Exchange Discussions
>Subject: Having an issue with outgoing emails staying in the smtp
>connector queue
>
>Evening. (sorry if this is a bit long)
>
>Hoping someone might have some ideas.
>
>We're configured with 2 remote offices, 1 main office. Total of 5
>Exchange servers (including Webmail, etc). All exchange servers go
>through main office to send/receive outside emails. (Exchange 2003,
>SP2)
>
>Everything has been running fine until yesterday afternoon. We
>noticed that our remote Boston Exchange server no longer will relay
>outgoing emails.
>
>Any emails inter-office (Boston to other offices) will be delivered,
>emails from the outside to Boston will be received, but that's
>it. All outgoing Boston emails just sit in the SMTP Connector Queue
>on the Boston server. I can see the emails under Exchange System
>Manager:
>
>Administrative Groups -> First Administrative Group -> Servers -
>Boston Mailserver - Queues - xxx-SMTP - _0c(lots of numbers)(SMTP
>Connector).
>
>I've reinstalled Exchange, and reapplied Service Pack 2 on all the
>servers in the event something cracked, no luck. I've purged the log
>files in the event something was corrupt, nothing.
>
>one thing I did notice is if I type NSLOOKUP, I get:
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator >nslookup
>*** Can't find server name for address 68.87.71.226: Query refused
>Default Server: UnKnown
>Address: 68.87.71.226
>
>On other exchange servers I get:
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator >nslookup
>Default Server: internal dnd server name (name removed by author)
>Address: 10.10.10.4
>
>I can't see any reason for this error, nothing in the event logs to
>show. The server has our internal DNS servers entered (I've
>reentered then several times), so it should be showing:
>
>Default Server: local remote office DNS server(name removed by author)
>Address: 10.10.20.2
>or even
>Default Server: main office dns server (name removed by author)
>Address: 10.10.10.4
>
>Emails sent by other servers process find, and if I open up a user
>account on that server and resend from my account, it's delivered
>fine (since it's using my mail server).
>
>Do you have any ideas as the mail queue is filling up? Also, if
>anyone knows how I can copy these emails from this Queue into one of
>the other servers so they can send it out? I've looked at the usual
>places: Exchsrvr - Mailroot - VSI 1 but it was empty.
>
>Thank you.
>
>
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