On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 12:18, Natter wrote: > But I don't understand how it can be a dns issue > when I can connect to the port with no problem. It's > just not giving me back the correct smtp response. > > After I posted the last message, it's now giving > me the [220 <my domain> ESMTP] line when I telnet > to port 25. It's like it goes to sleep once in a while > and some smtp servers don't like that so they return > the email back to the sender...
It's probably a reverse DNS issue, I have that problem even with everything disabled: exec softlimit -m 23000000 tcpserver -t3 -S -H -R It's just that the reverse DNS server is down when you're getting the 'wait'. Rick > > --- Shane Chrisp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Well, it gets worse. Now when I telnet to port 25, > > >it's not giving me the correct messages back: > > > > > >>telnet <my server> 25 > > >Trying <my ip address>... > > >Connected to <my reverse dns name>. > > >Escape character is '^]'. > > >^] > > >telnet> quit > > >Connection closed. > > > > Brings us back to dns resolution. Ensure that server > > has a working dns. I > > like to run a > > dnscache for the qmail servers to use. If the > > servers are not doing a lot of > > work I run > > it on the same server as the qmail install. Bind had > > been known to give > > problems with > > qmail. > > > > Shane > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
