Running MS DNS on the same machine would be likely cause, test the DNS
server with nslookup.exe. MS DNS is sensitive and will dump it's root
server cache pretty quick. SP5 resolves most of that.
-V
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 1999 6:51 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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