Totally agree. They, and the hosting companies they have acquired but not rebranded as Verio (at least the ones we've had experience with) have notoriously poor email service especially.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Tolmachoff (Lists)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:32 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Strange occasional random issue Do to various issues in the past with a couple of clients, I do not consider Verio a good company. John T eServices For You > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Guluk > Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 4:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Strange occasional random issue > > Oh what a day from hell...... How do you pick a good DNS server? I > had one from Verio that I've used for the last couple years > 161.58.158.113 > Ipswitch Techs had me try one of there's while we were testing all > the various problems. Worked well with theirs so I assumed that mine > was not too good... I called Verio where my servers are hosted and > they could not tell me much information about the DNS IP I posted > above. They suggested that because it was a cache DNS server it looks > like it may not always be available and maybe retired soon... Quite > frankly I think the Gal knew less than I did about the server... None > the less I tracerouted to the primary dns servers (ns1 and > ns2 .DN.net) and used these in the SMTP area of iMail 8.21 > These worked poorly and allowed my queue to grow to over 100 emails > and stay at that point . Restarting the SMTP server would clear half > of them but then back to the same state... People started calling > because there were errors such as "553 Requested action not taken: > Relaying not permitted" or "553 sorry, that domain isn't in my list > of allowed rcpthosts (#5.7.1)"... I switched back to the IP above and > it immediately cleared the cache and now hovers around 7 or 8 emails > pending. Why does one DNS server IP work better than others? > 207.153.206.126 and 161.58.158.45 (bound to ns1 and 2 as mentioned > above) failed to perform worth while. > > You would think a company like Verio would have great DNS servers? Am > I missing something? I'm thinking of moving to Rackspace at the end > of the month and hope they can help. > > Regards, > > Steve > > > > > > On Sep 9, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Darin Cox wrote: > > > Ok, so according to this the mail server could not connect to the > > primary > > rackspace.com mail server. > > > > According to http://dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch? > > domain=rackspace.com, > > everything looks good for rackspace.com, so this may have been a > > temporary > > issue with the rackspace.com mail server, or connectivity between your > > server and theirs. > > > > Darin. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
