I have also been having this problem for months. We've decided to stop and start the
QueueMgr service every 15 minutes. We also turned DNS caching off This seems to work.
Maybe I'll turn off monitoring as well, as others have suggested.
-Chase
Network and Systems Engineer
Bullhorn, Inc.
125 B St.
Boston, MA 02127
p. 617.464.2440 ex 119
m. 617.512.0326
www.bullhornstaffing.com
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From:"paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Dec 8, 2003 09:40:33 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist failure
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Hmmm,
I'm seeing the same thing going on here. First Imail stopped delivering once every
2 weeks or so, now it's almost every 2-3 days. Stopping/starting Queue Manager + SMTP
services fixes it and the backlog is delivered. I've not seen any instances of Declude
being skipped, BUT if everyone else here has seen it, I'm sure it's happening here as
well. I don't have any monitoring running, just logging. We learned how that monitor
service can mess you up. I DID just clear the "DNS Cache" check this morning, just to
see if that has any effect. Imail 8.03 here + Declude 1.76.
It's frustrating!!!!
Paul
Also, if you are using the Queue Manager "DNS Cache" feature, I would recommend
disabling it, it caused similar problems for us until we disabled it, and no problems
sense (for at least 6 months).
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Bilbee
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist failure
Kami,
If you are having hte problem about every two days you may want to look at The imail
Monitor service. Turn off onitoring of the WWW service and your problem should go
away. The Monitor service has an issue not letting go of the outgoing TCP port.
If you look at your Imail server and run a netstat you will see many outgoing ports in
a "wait" state. If this is the case the you need to definatly stop the minitor service
from monitoring the WWW service. I went arround and arround with IPSwitch and they
blamed it on our NIC our NIC drivers our DNS our Router our hub. I finaly figured out
what it was by a process of elimination of turning off one service at a time.
When I let IpSwitch know the problem they told me they new about it and were working
on a fix. I guess it still is not fixed.
We are running 8.03 and win2k
Kevin Bilbee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kami Razvan
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 10:05 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist failure
Hi Paul:
We have the same issue.. but when we reboot all goes well for 2 days and then it
happens again.
Our problem is also that the mail does not go out.. when this happens the server can
not resolve any name. Our other servers have no problem .. the only one that has
issue is the one running IMail.
Contacted IPSwitch about it: Response.. "we are not aware of this issue & have not
heard of this".. I think they don't watch this list.. since it has been a topic of
discussion more than a hundred times.
We have done several suggestions on the list with no resolution.
For now-- reboot every other day.
Regards,
Kami
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Tolmachoff (Lists)
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 12:56 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist failure
Search the archives for problems noted with Imail DNS tests and Windows 2003 server.
John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:39 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] DNS Blacklist failure
I�ve seen a couple of posts in the mail archive about this subject, but I haven�t seen
a resolution to it yet.
I am running Imail Express 8.04 on a Windows 2003 server. When I attempt to use DNS
Blacklists I get the following error.
BLACKLIST: failed to connect to service (SpamCop:*.bl.spamcop.net)
This error is returned 99 times out of a hundred, with it only successfully contacting
the service 1 time out of the 100.
I have changed the �Server� input from �*� to my local DNS server, to my ISP�s DNS
server, but still have the same result. If I do a nslookup 2.0.0.127.bl.spamcop.net
from a DOS prompt on the hosting machine it returns the proper response of 127.0.0.2.
So I know my DNS is functioning properly.
Has anyone found a fix for this problem?
Thanks,
Paul Ellison
Network Admin
3-D Solutions Inc.
