I second that. I've been using it for a few years trouble free.
John Cesta iMAIL Reporter - Reports on iMAIL server and POP users LogFileManager - IIS LogFile Management Tool WebPageChecker - Helps Maintain Server UpTime DomainReportIt PRO - Helps Rebuild IIS http://www.serverautomationtools.com On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:41:11 +1200, Terence Blyth wrote: > I like simpleDNS > > Regards > > Terence Blyth > > Computer Technologies Ltd > > Phone 64 3 545 9001 > > Fax 64 3 545 9002 > > > WARNING: The contents of this e-mail may contain information that > is legally privileged and/or confidential to the named recipient. > This information is not to be used by any other person and/or > organisation. The views expressed in this document do not > necessarily reflect those of Computer Technologies Ltd. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Guluk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:40 a.m. > 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/ > > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Computer Technologies Ltd > www.ctec.co.nz] > > > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Computer Technologies Ltd > www.ctec.co.nz] 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/
