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Interestingly
enough, cacheing isn't the problem on our IMail side. Microsoft has not
removed the unresponsive hosts from their MX records despite the problem
persisting over a week and those hosts never responding.
If Microsoft had changed their DNS, cacheing would be an
issue.
Also, MSN
addresees would have the same queuing problem. The MX records for the MSN
domain(s) point to the Hotmail servers.
Since the problem
was particularly bad for us, we've put the dummy zone back in our mail server's
local DNS, with the 12, correction, 9 out of 16 hosts that do respond
to us.
And no, I won't
share which 9 hosts with the mailing list, as I'm sure your subset of hotmail
servers would be different from mine, and these messages are archived on the web
for future admins to stumble over. If you really need to do this too, look
at the mail hosts and spend some time searching for those IP addresses in your
sys0521.txt log, but don't forget to check later and remove your dummy zone when
Hotmail returns to normal service.
Andrew
8)
I
turned off IMail's internal DNS caching in order to avoid situations like
this. I don't host that many local accounts, but I haven't seen any
build-ups in my spool either time that Hotmail has had issues. My
thought is that maybe you cached records in IMail that corespond to the
servers that aren't functioning properly? This is one of the reasons why
I turned this off at least.
Matt
Robert Shubert
wrote:
Incidentally, Hotmail - as of a few day ago - does acknowledge the
problem and said they are working on it. I had to tell my server to
retry for a day before I could start sending to hotmail again.
R
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Colbeck, Andrew
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 12:40 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?
I'm seeing 2 things:
My default Imail queuing numbers gave too much emphasis on retry threads
and
frequency. I've lowered them.
The same 1/4 of the Hotmail MX hosts are still down this week. I
stuffed
the responsive ones into my cacheing DNS server in a hotmail.com zone
and
that alleviated the queue. The next day I checked my Imail log, because
I
wanted to get rid of that hotmail.com workaround before it bit me, and I
found that the remaining 3/4 of the servers still regularly told my
server
to come back later, refused connection, or dropped the connection.
Andrew 8)
-----Original Message-----
From: David Lewis-Waller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:52 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?
This looks like it's an ongoing, long term issue. DNReports MX
connection
problems.
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=hotmail.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Rick Davidson
Sent: 11 May 2004 20:29
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Hotmail not accept inbound mail?
Yep hotmail is not accepting from us either, I am seeing
connection resets from them
Rick Davidson
National Systems Manager
North American Title Group
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