Re: qmail died again... 3x in 3 weeks

[Eric Cox]

Paul Farber wrote:
> 
> telnetting to port 25 and 110 just timed out.  

This usually means (when it has happened to me anyway) that the 
server is listening on the port you're telnetting to, but is 
stalled doing a reverse DNS lookup of the client's IP address.  
Perhaps a munged reverse DNS zonefile?


> DNS was fine... it means
> just that, I could ping via hostname and the dns logs show it was running.

That could still happen under the above scenario...

Eric