hi, looks like your traceroute explains why you couldnt get through. The secure log just shows that you are running the smtp daemon thro xinetd instead of standalone and it is getting invoked when each client connects. you could look into /var/log/messages for more clues (assuming that this is a Linux box we are talking abt)
abhishek jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Friends, I run a server with softlayer and today i was not able to connect to the sever via ssh,ping etc.. I complained to softlayer but they said everything was fine .I even tried to connect from different souce IPs like from another server. Then i tried to start the VPN connection between mine server and my computer and everything come to normal. I am not sure where was the problem, I did a traceroute before and after the server was down can anyone of you guys tell me or hint upon where was the probelm. Traceroute before server became correct ie when it was down: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 22 ms 29 ms 29 ms triband-del-59.177.31.254.bol.net.in [59. 254] 3 26 ms 29 ms 29 ms triband-del-59.179.0.65.bol.net.in [59.17 4 26 ms 29 ms 29 ms delhi-203.197.228-245.vsnl.net.in [203.19 45] 5 27 ms 29 ms 29 ms 203.200.87.68 6 78 ms 99 ms 109 ms 59.163.16.1.static.vsnl.net.in [59.163.16 7 118 ms 109 ms 109 ms 59.163.16.1.static.vsnl.net.in [59.163.16 8 97 ms 99 ms 99 ms vsb-lvsb-stm4.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2 9 318 ms 339 ms 319 ms nny-mum-6th-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.5 ] 10 288 ms 299 ms 289 ms ge-5-3-1.pr2.lga1.us.above.net [64.125.13 11 267 ms 269 ms 269 ms so-5-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.above.net [64.125.27 12 268 ms 269 ms 269 ms so-1-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [64.125.2 13 277 ms 279 ms 289 ms so-1-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.28 14 297 ms 299 ms 299 ms so-3-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29 15 287 ms 300 ms 289 ms ge6-1.fcr01.dal01.softlayer.com [64.124.7 16 * * * Request timed out. 17 * * * Request timed out. 18 * * * Request timed out. 19 * * * Request timed out. 20 * * * Request timed out. 21 * * * Request timed out. 22 * * * Request timed out. 23 * * * Request timed out. 24 * * * Request timed out. 25 * * * Request timed out. 26 * * * Request timed out. 27 * * * Request timed out. 28 * * * Request timed out. 29 * * * Request timed out. 30 * * * Request timed out. Tracert from windows when the server became ok. Tracing route to -reverse.softlayer.com [208.101.25.122] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 * * * Request timed out. 2 25 ms 29 ms 29 ms triband-del-59.177.31.254.bol.net.in [ 59.177.31. 254] 3 26 ms 29 ms 29 ms triband-del-59.179.0.65.bol.net.in [ 59.179.0.65] 4 47 ms 49 ms 49 ms delhi-203.197.228-245.vsnl.net.in [ 203.197.228.2 45] 5 28 ms 28 ms 29 ms 203.200.87.68 6 46 ms 49 ms 49 ms 59.163.16.1.static.vsnl.net.in [59.163.16.1] 7 47 ms 49 ms 59 ms 59.163.16.1.static.vsnl.net.in [59.163.16.1] 8 48 ms 59 ms 79 ms vsb-lvsb-stm4.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [ 202.54.2.190] 9 248 ms 249 ms 249 ms nny-mum-6th-stm1.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [ 202.54.2.130 ] 10 277 ms 289 ms 279 ms ge-5-3-1.pr2.lga1.us.above.net [64.125.13.53 ] 11 268 ms 269 ms 269 ms so-5-0-0.cr2.lga1.us.above.net [ 64.125.27.138] 12 268 ms 269 ms 269 ms so-1-0-0.mpr2.iad1.us.above.net [ 64.125.28.65] 13 281 ms 279 ms 279 ms so-1-0-0.cr2.dca2.us.above.net [ 64.125.28.129] 14 288 ms 298 ms 300 ms so-3-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [ 64.125.29.169] 15 319 ms 319 ms 319 ms ge6-1.fcr01.dal01.softlayer.com [ 64.124.79.206] 16 318 ms 319 ms 319 ms -reverse.softlayer.com [208.101.25 .122] Trace complete. Pl. do tell me what can be the problem. Also i see many such lines in /var/log/secure May 11 13:05:32 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4427 from= 71.98.243.254 May 11 13:07:41 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4445 from= 203.142.17.155 May 11 13:09:03 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4456 from= 217.147.82.229 May 11 13:09:05 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4466 from= 217.147.82.229 May 11 13:11:05 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4477 from= 66.228.118.20 May 11 13:14:08 server1 xinetd[2056]: START: smtp pid=4488 from= 211.189.200.6 Pl. tell me the log files to view. I shall be very grateful, I would apprecate if i could get a speedy reply. Thanks, Abhishek Jain _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ catch ya later (Ive gotta UnWire Life!!!) shiv --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
