SMTP Problems Soved...

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all.

Thanks for everyones help.  Here's what the problem was...

Somehow only a couple subnets on our wan couldn't see our main DNS server.
DNS resolutin was fine, but we couldn't get to it.  (ie Ping didn't
respond).  It was a bad entry in some table or something.  

Oh well, after the 3rd AS/400 reported email problems and then other
problems which more directly related to the network gurus, the problem was
solved.

Reminds me of a skit I saw.  This guy had a dream he was president.  His
staff told me he had cured cancer.  When he asked how, his aid said "you
gave cancer to 10 of the most important people in the world and we had 32
cures in a week."  :)

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 12:22 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Anybody know what to look for in a Trace Route for SMTP?
> 
> 
> After further conversation, I have determined that I have absolutely
> no idea what is wrong.  It looks like a DNS problem, probably in the
> fact that the AS/400 is not liking the DNS entry returned by the
> DNS server.
> 
> I seem to recall reading something, somewhere, about some DNS
> entries able to have more than one entry.  That is, one domain name
> having more than one IP.  And that the AS/400 doesn't' recognize
> this and won't accept it.  That could be what's wrong.  And hopefully
> there is a PTF for it if it is.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Jim Langston wrote:
> 
> > >From looking at the complete traceroute he sent me, and the DNS
> > it was trying to resolve, it was my conclusion that the domain name
> > wasn't in the DNS servers (especially after I tried to Ping 
> it myself
> > and got a host not resolved error).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jim Langston
> 
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