Philip > > The web farm told me to enter 4 IP's....is this valid?
Sandy> Yep, if they all work. Seems like they don't. Sandy, Well, they work when they feel like working. :-) Sometimes one DNS times out, sometimes two times out, sometimes 3 time out when I launch NSLOOKUP. It's been like that for as far back as I can remember. > You also have a slightly different setup in IMail than in Windows, > which is not necessary unless you're really trying to spread the load. > > In IMail, you have: > > 198.6.1.5 198.6.1.4 198.6.1.3 63.101.159.232 > > But in Windows, it appears that you have: > > 198.6.1.5 198.6.1.4 198.6.1.3 198.6.1.2 How do you know what I have in Windows? > Now, Windows judges only 198.6.1.2 as healthy (as of the time of your > post); IMail will be more forgiving, in a sense, than Windows, which > can lead to problems that are hard to track. And you have that 63 > address in IMail, but not Windows...I don't know where *that* came > from, but if you go into NSLOOKUP and change your current server using > 'SERVER 63.101.159.232' you'll know after a few tests whether that > server address is also returning valid results for MX lookups. 63.101.159.232 is the IP address of the NIC card on my IIS 5 web server. Maybe I should remove it from the Imail Domain Name Server field? > Right now, my impression is that 198.6.1.2 and 63.101.159.232 are the > only servers eligible for use in Windows, and unless there is a > specific reason to have different servers in Windows and in IMail, you > won't need to list them in IMail at all--just clear the field in the > SMTPD dialog. WHAT SMPTD dialog are you referring to? There is no SMPTD dialog in Imail Administrator. Philip To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
