Re: RH9 SMTP/POP3 problems

[Eucke Warren <euckew sierraelectronics com>]

Dan Trainor - hostinthebox.net wrote:
> I think that this is the wrong list for troubleshooting this kind of 
> problem...
>
> However, I know how much of a pain in the ass that this can be.  ANy 
> chance that DNS is flakey?  Are you running round-robin DNS?  This can 
> happen by "accident" sometime, if two entrys are made for the same 
> hostname.  Although if it was a DNS problem, I would suspect that LOTS 
> of people would have this problem (About 50% of people would have a 
> problem at any given time, if there's a 1:2 round-robin setup, and so 
> on).  How about telling us how often this happens?  Does it happen with 
> specific machines more than others?  Anything else?
>
> Thanks
> -dant

I was torn as to which would more readily apply between this and the 
main redhat-list.  The Main one seems to be more current 
distro's..perhaps I made the wrong choice?

DNS is having issues presently.  I am working on a replacement for the 
old existing DNS servers.  I suspect that I could test this by entering 
an IP instead of the name of the server for SMTP and see if that fixes 
the problem.

So, you have seen flakey DNS exhibit this type of problem?

Eucke