Eric: When that guy called me to complain, he said he was blocking my attempts to hit his IP on his firewall. So, the question is, why was my mail server constantly trying to connect, over and over, and over...
Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "E. Shanbrom (Ipswitch)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] send error 10054 > In reality the 10054 error is a Winsock error coming back from the TCP Stack > that means the connection was broken at the other end. This is usually > indicative of a network problem somewhere..First thing I look at is the NIC > configuration and drivers..Make sure all power management for the NIC(s) is > disabled. Make sure you are running a "Server" class NIC..If you think > everything is ok through a packet sniffer on the wire to actually see what > is happening. > > Eric S > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Markus Gufler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 11:16 AM > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] send error 10054 > > > > > > > 10:03 08:54 SMTPD(0BB40074) send error 10054 > > > 10:03 08:54 SMTPD(0BB40074) send error 10054 > > > > > > There are tons of these entries in my log. The owner of that > > > IP just called me to complain. > > > > Can you test if the delay time between your server and this IP is > > abnormal long? > > > > I have the same problem for over a year now and hasn't found any > > solution (the moving this users to our Linux box) > > > > The only common thing all this users has had was a relative slow > > connection to our server with very high traffic. (for example 64k ISDN > > and multiple users behind transfering larger files over the remote > > connection) > > > > I've made a lot of tests and I found aut that this 10054 errors happens > > any time when the ping delay between our server and the connecting > > client was over 7500 milliseconds. > > > > Any send error 10054 line in your logfile means that the Imail-server > > has dropped silently the connection to the client. This client will run > > into a timeout and return an error on his side. > > > > Markus > > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > 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/ > 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/
