Paul,
Did you make any other changes such as: firewall, DNS server, etc...
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 23, 1999 3:48 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Getting "MX Connect Failed" Errors All of a Sudden
>I have been running v5 for months without any problems. Yesterday all of a
>sudden and for no apparent reason the mail server cannot deliver any
>outgoing mail. Every outgoing mail delivery is now resulting in (for
>example):
>
>07:22 23:51 SMTP-(000001CE) Trying erols.com (0)
>07:22 23:52 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.245"
>07:22 23:53 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.248"
>07:22 23:53 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.241"
>07:22 23:54 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.242"
>07:22 23:55 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.243"
>07:22 23:56 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "207.172.3.244"
>07:22 23:56 SMTP-(000001CE) Stack connect fail "216.164.100.159"
>07:22 23:56 SMTP-(000001CE) Trying mediaone.net (0)
>07:22 23:57 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "24.128.1.118"
>07:22 23:58 SMTP-(000001CE) MX connect fail "24.128.1.114"
>
>The server was delivering fine up until roughly 9:30am yesterday. At that
>time I did a stop/restart of the system when I was trying to set up a
>virtual host that would be based on an external database. I was having some
>trouble getting an external database host set up and thought I may need to
>stop/restart. Other than the host that was set up for external database
>users, I did not make any changes in the configuration of the system (at
>least none that I can recall).
>
>Any ideas what might be causing this?
>
>Thanks for your suggestions.
>
>Paul Sinclair
>
>
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