Len, we saw similar errors, but a second reboot after the SP6a install
seemed to have resolved the error. Apparently, some changes get made during
the first reboot that a second reboot implements and resolves.
Worth a shot...
Bill Landry
Pointshare
-----Original Message-----
From: Len Kendall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:14 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] SP5 & DNS
Thanks to one and all for the input. My previous experience was at an ISP
running BSDi so your insights has been most helpful.
I did try upgrading to SP6 and got similar errors. It sounds around here
like we are going to move DNS to another machine.
Thanks again
-Len
Leonard J. Kendall
Information Systems
Okemo Mountain Resort; 77 Okemo Ridge Road; Ludlow, VT 05149
(802) 228-1984
At 12:04 PM 8/23/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Upgrade to SP6. If you went from SP3 to SP5, the error would not have
>occurred (seems SP4 was more buggy than the stuff it fixed). SP6 fixes
>most of the errors going from SP4 to SP5. Thanks Microsoft...
>
>Yes, I use MS DNS. My shop is an MCSP, and I'm an MCP, and my techs are
>MCSE's, so if I'm telling you the Microsoft product is flaky, you can rest
>assured it is. If anybody would take up for them, I would. Yes, I avoided
>SP4 and don't have this error. On any new machine that comes in with NT
>(since NT4.0 w/SP4 is the OEM version shipping), I format the hard drive,
>and install NT4.0. Then upgrade to SP3, then SP5 or SP6. No errors, and
>it's stable. Avoid SP4 like the plague. If you are on an SP4 machine, and
>are using MS DNS, good luck, because you'll need it eventually.
>
>If the SP6 upgrade doesn't do the trick, get rid of (uninstall) the MS DNS
>service, and re-install it. Then apply SP6 again.
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Anthony Poisson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 11:30:13 -0400
>
> >That seems to be what the article I enclosed earlier seems to suggest.
>
><SNIP>
>
> >Why not just upgrade to SP6a?
> >
> >Bill
>
><SNIP>
>
> >Greetings,
> >
> >Please forgive that this is really an NT question, but it is directly
> >related to what I am trying to do with Imail.
> >
> >I am in the process of getting the perl script subscribe1.pl for Imail
from
> >imailsrv2.pl
> >on the utilities page working. The script is not what I am writing about
> >however.
> >
> >This required the installation of a more recent version of Perl (which I
> >did) which requires an upgrade on our part from (NT 4.0) SP4 to SP5.
Which
> >I did but then M$ DNS stopped working. After rebooting there was an error
> >in Event Viewer that "The Microsoft DNS service terminated with the
> >following error: The data is invalid."
> >
> >The zone files were still there and I was able to uninstall SP5 and DNS
is
> >working again. The same server is our internal DNS server for our network
> >so this is a problem.
> >And there is some urgency in getting these mailing lists active.
> >
> >Has anyone run into this before? I tried searching Microsoft Technet
Online
> >Support but didn't get anywhere. If anyone can offer any suggestions it
> >would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >-Len
>
>
>--
>Keith Pillow, CTO
>Sylvan Information Services, Inc.
>www.sylvaninfo.net
>84 Main Street Warsaw, Virginia 22572
>
>--
>Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
>to be removed from this list.
>
>An Archive of this list is available at:
>http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html
to be removed from this list.
An Archive of this list is available at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
