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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 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/
