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Friday, April 15, 2005, 4:45:40 PM, you wrote:

IA> We have an IMail server (v. 7.15) that crashed twice today.  The same
IA> problem occured once, several weeks ago.  The
IA> crash is a little strange:

IA> 1. The even log shows no error messages,
IA> except that there was a dirty
IA> shut-down.
IA> 2. The system shows no other problems, hardware or software.
IA> 3. That server is on a switch with a couple of
IA> other public servers.  When
IA> the crash occurs, it kills all traffic through
IA> that switch.  Nothing gets in
IA> or out.  Reboot the mail server, and the problem goes away.

IA> Normally, with a crash I would look at
IA> software first.  Then, if nothing has
IA> changed in the software, I would look at the
IA> hardware.  In thise case,
IA> everything looks clean.  So what else could it
IA> be?  I wondered if this could
IA> be a DOS attack that overloaded the server and
IA> tied up the network?  What do
IA> you think?

IA> Ben
IA> BC Web



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