There was no human intervention here. Perhaps there was on the Declude side of the equation.
I have never liked the 'ET call home' method of license validation. It is a security risk on its face - nothing personal to Declude and it is something else that can break. A new license key upon each renewal would be better IMHO. Monday, December 26, 2005, 10:05:20 AM, Andy Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AS> Hi Darrell: AS> I had been assured by the highest authority that it would require HUMAN AS> intervention if there was ever going to be a licensing "mismatch" detected, AS> before the "remote deactivation" of a license. AS> We will need to watch for their explanation to see whether that policy has AS> now changed for the worse -- with the very obvious result everyone had been AS> fearful of (that any automatic process WILL fail at SOME point.) AS> I cannot afford to run mission critical applications 24x365, if I have to AS> blindly rely on the availability of third party resources that I know AS> nothing about. AS> Best Regards AS> Andy Schmidt AS> Phone: +1 201 934-3414 x20 (Business) AS> Fax: +1 201 934-9206 AS> -----Original Message----- AS> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AS> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darrell AS> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AS> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 10:49 AM AS> To: [email protected] AS> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] License Downgraded [was All I wan't for AS> Christmas is not to be paged!) AS> I sent an email back into support last night as I started having slow AS> processing again. I have reverted back to 2.0.6 and all is running well. >>From what I can tell (AND I COULD BE WRONG) it appears that the >>licensing AS> process is broke at the Declude end. I *think* one of the name servers they AS> run (ns.decludekey.us ) for a domain cphzkey.com is/was down over the AS> weekend. I am still waiting for support to respond. AS> I am not going to go into speculation about the licensing process, because I AS> don't want to feed any bad info because I have no idea how it works. AS> However, from what I troubleshoot on my system coupled with reviewing a AS> user.dmp/dr. watson from the decludeproc during the issue I feel comfortable AS> in saying my problems that I seen on my system over the weekend are caused AS> by a failure to validate its license. AS> Darrell AS> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AS> Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for utilities for Declude And AS> Imail. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI integration, MRTG AS> Integration, and Log Parsers. AS> ----- Original Message ----- AS> From: "Dave Doherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AS> To: <[email protected]> AS> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 10:27 AM AS> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] License Downgraded [was All I wan't for AS> Christmas is not to be paged!) >> FWIW, >> >> We are not seeing this problem. >> >> -d >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Don Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 10:10 AM >> Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] License Downgraded [was All I wan't >> for Christmas is not to be paged!) >> >> >>> Our install of Junkmail Pro is also running as standard. We've >>> rebooted several times and can't get it to restore to Pro. >>> >>> >>> Saturday, December 24, 2005, 10:36:37 PM, Darrell >>> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dsic> So here it is the night before Christmas and all though the >>> Dsic> house >>> not a >>> Dsic> creature was stirring not even a mouse. >>> Dsic> My pager starts going off incenstantly - so I jump up to see >>> Dsic> what's >>> the >>> Dsic> matter - oh my queues are filling up faster and faster... >>> Dsic> Sorry about that - maybe its the Christmas spirit that grabbed >>> me... >>> >>> Dsic> When I got into the server my proc folder was around 2500+ >>> Dsic> q*.smd >>> files. >>> Dsic> Thank god for QueueMon :) >>> >>> Dsic> At first I had no idea what was going on - my proc folder was >>> growing and >>> Dsic> growing. I checked the usual suspects (DNS, etc) and >>> Dsic> everything >>> was working >>> Dsic> fine. I started to sift through the logs and noticed a huge >>> Dsic> amount >>> of >>> Dsic> messages that were failing a lot of tests and should have been >>> Dsic> held >>> or >>> Dsic> deleted but were being marked with "LAST ACTION=IGNORE". >>> >>> Dsic> I bumped up the log levels and started to see the following: >>> >>> Dsic> Sorry, filters [REVERSEWEIGHTDNS] are only available in Declude >>> JunkMail Pro >>> Dsic> Using [no] CFG file outgoing. Pro version required for outgoing >>> mail. >>> >>> Dsic> Not to mention I noticed messages being cleared very slowly. >>> Dsic> After >>> several >>> Dsic> restarts of the "Declude Proc" service things started to move >>> again - I am >>> Dsic> not sure if it was because of the multiple Declude proc >>> Dsic> restarts or >>> putting >>> Dsic> in the DNSOVERIDE command that we used back under 2.0.6 see - >>> Dsic> >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24661.htm >>> l >>> >>> Dsic> After a couple of restarts of the decludeproc service and the >>> DNSOVERIDE >>> Dsic> command my Declude started working again as a PRO version and >>> messages >>> Dsic> started being blocked and processing very quickly. My queues >>> Dsic> than >>> cleared >>> Dsic> up. >>> >>> Dsic> I am a bit sick to my stomach over this as I leaked to my >>> Dsic> customers >>> probably >>> Dsic> 4-6K spam's over the entire 3 hour period from when this >>> Dsic> started to >>> when it >>> Dsic> was finished. I will have a bit of explaining to do I imagine >>> Dsic> on >>> Tuesday if >>> Dsic> not sooner. >>> >>> Dsic> Has anyone seen this? Any explanations on what could have >>> Dsic> caused >>> this. I >>> Dsic> just keep thinking what if I did not have monitoring to catch >>> Dsic> this >>> in time - >>> Dsic> I probably would not have checked the servers until Tuesday. >>> Dsic> My >>> only guess >>> Dsic> is that my server failed in the "phone home" license check and >>> downgraded >>> Dsic> itself. >>> >>> Dsic> Darrell >>> Dsic> --------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Dsic> --------- Check out http://www.invariantsystems.com for >>> Dsic> utilities for Declude >>> And >>> Dsic> Imail. IMail/Declude Overflow Queue Monitoring, SURBL/URI >>> integration, MRTG >>> Dsic> Integration, and Log Parsers. >>> >>> Dsic> --- >>> Dsic> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude EVA >>> www.declude.com] >>> >>> Dsic> --- >>> Dsic> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >>> Dsic> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and >>> Dsic> type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found >>> Dsic> at http://www.mail-archive.com. >>> >>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Don Brown - Dallas, Texas USA Internet Concepts, Inc. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.inetconcepts.net >>> (972) 788-2364 Fax: (972) 788-5049 >>> ---- >>> >>> --- >>> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude EVA www.declude.com] >>> >>> --- >>> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >>> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type >>> "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com. >>> >>> >> >> >> --- >> [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude EVA www.declude.com] >> >> --- >> This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To >> unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type >> "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". 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