Hello all,
Been getting a lot of calls about MUA's reporting "Unable to locate
mail.f-tech.net" usually from Eudora lite or Netscape Communicator. I'm
not sure if this is a tcp problem or tcpserver problem.
Here's what happens..
Customer clicks on either send mail or check mail, a window pops up and
states that it cannot find the network address of mail.f-tech.net. It
happened to me once, but if you wait, then try again it goes through.
My mail server is qmail 1.03 on a Cyrix 200MMx 32 Mb ram 2Gb root
partition with /home mounted on a seperate 6Gb disk.
Here is a snapshot of netstat -a right after a customer called.. dosen;t
seem to be a heavy load..
tcp 0 130 mail.f-tech.net:telnet admin.f-tech.net:1024
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft171.f-tech.net:4182
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail.f-tech.net:smtp ft220.f-tech.net:1062
ESTABLISHED
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft187.f-tech.net:1072
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft159.f-tech.net:2423
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft192.f-tech.net:1040
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft111.f-tech.net:1031
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop pm4-198.pot.infi.n:1221
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft135.f-tech.net:1091
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft147.f-tech.net:3196
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft147.f-tech.net:3197
TIME_WAIT
tcp 1 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft111.f-tech.net:1035
TIME_WAIT
tcp 0 0 mail.f-tech.net:pop ft220.f-tech.net:1065
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 0 mail.f-tech.net:smtp www.zone.com:2550
ESTABLISHED
tcp 0 2 mail.f-tech.net:1362 www.zone.com:auth
SYN_SENT
ud
at most I can have 72 people using pop (that's all the modems I have) and
qmail-pop3 is run from tcpserver:
29384 ? S 0:00 supervise /var/lock/qmail-pop3d tcpserver -c40 -u0 -g0
0 pop-3 qmail-popup mail.f-tech.net checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir
29385 ? S 1:14 tcpserver -c40 -u0 -g0 0 pop-3 qmail-popup
mail.f-tech.net checkpassword qmail-pop3d Maildir
2
Any advice on where to look first?
My network is split 10/100 using a D-Link 10/100 switching Hub. Modems
are on the 10, mail server is on the 100.
The NIC is a d-link 530-TX PCI controller and seems to be running clean:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:48:4C:C0
inet addr:207.44.65.16 Bcast:207.44.65.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6434950 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:6149503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000
Anything look wrong??
Paul D. Farber II
Farber Technology
717-628-5303
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
