Was a debug file created if so you can run WinDBG against it and see if its a hardware or software related issue.
Darrell ------------------------------------------- invURIBL - Intelligent URI filtering plugin for Declude. Stops 85% of the SAPM with the default configuration. Try it for free - http://www.invariantsystems.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Imail Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:45 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] diagnosing server crash > We have an IMail server (v. 7.15) that crashed twice today. The same > problem occured once, several weeks ago. The crash is a little strange: > > 1. The even log shows no error messages, except that there was a dirty > shut-down. > 2. The system shows no other problems, hardware or software. > 3. That server is on a switch with a couple of other public servers. When > the crash occurs, it kills all traffic through that switch. Nothing gets in > or out. Reboot the mail server, and the problem goes away. > > Normally, with a crash I would look at software first. Then, if nothing has > changed in the software, I would look at the hardware. In thise case, > everything looks clean. So what else could it be? I wondered if this could > be a DOS attack that overloaded the server and tied up the network? What do > you think? > > Ben > 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/ > 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/
