Those problems should be fixed now... Sometimes IPF's state table would
fill up and make our network unreachable. I think I've solved that by
only keeping state on SYN packets. I'll be using pf soon anyway. Also,
the network here was amazingly misconfigured and prone to low
performance and high collision rate that would slow access to our
server. A strategically placed switch has solved that as well I
believe.
The www stuff is a funny issue. The server actually has two IP
addresses on one interface. One is for http, the other is for mail and
ftp. This may sound strange, but there is a historical reason for this.
One of these IPs is bhengineers.com, the other is www.bhengineers.com.
This server filters it's own traffic and only allows web traffic to the
www address, etc... It was a kludge that was needed in a hurry to work
with existing mistakes =/
TimH
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Linux Rocks !
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 10:42 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [EUG-LUG:321] Re: KMail authentication...
>
>
> Tim,
> Hi, I use kmail 2.2.1, and havnt had this issue. I have
> notice sometimes I
> get error messages from list proc, and ocassionally when
> replying to you, i
> get bounce messages that your reply to adress is
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] We talked about this once, and if I
> femember right it was becuse of a DNS issue you have with
> your ISP. If your
> mailserver is configuured so as to not relay non-authentic
> DNS (ie, thwart
> spam) then this may be the same issue. Does your DNS have a
> MX record for
> www.bhengineers.com ? I hope not... and this may be why your getiing
> authentication issues. as in, www host is not an authentic
> mail exchanger.
>
> I got a bounce today from listproc that www.bh..... isnt
> subscribed to the
> list and not allowd to send. (BTW, it did even go so far as
> to say that
> thowe@bhengineers was though... I will post your message that
> you sent
> earlier.
>
> Jamie
>
> On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:57, you wrote:
> > I often check my email at work from home using KMail. It
> works fine,
> > but every time I get my mail, there is a message logged that says
> > "authentication failure" on my email server. This should
> only happen
> > when incorrect passwords are used, which is not the case.
> Anybody know
> > why kmail would generate a failure message and then succeed
> in fetching
> > the mail? This is kmail from KDE 2.2.1
> >
> > TimH
>
