Maybe was dropping your requests at the firewall and not rejecting them. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Imail Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 10:48 AM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] send error 10054
> 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/ > 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/
