On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Kent Busbee<kbusb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Kent Busbee<kbusb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Kent Busbee <kbusb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok, now I am subscribed in gmail and should be able to email more 
>>> efficiently.
>>>
>>> DNS warn - I don't think it is that big a deal, and my ISP does my DNS.  I 
>>> am sure he is on .com not .org, thus not the same TLD.
>>>
>>> The problem at hand is getting these messages in the queue out 213 and 
>>> growing.  What is preventing the emails from going to the outside world?  
>>> What should I check?
>>
>> Phil Wrote:
>>
>>>What do you mean you changed a DC to backup? Is DNS still on it? Is that 
>>>where you are getting dns from? If you removed AD from a DNS DC, then DNS 
>>>will be flakey if it runs at all.
>>
>>>Try random browsing from the toaster and see how well DNS performs.
>>
>>
>> I mean that I moved the Operations Master roll on my MS w2k server and
>> moved it to my MS w2k3 server.  One of those rolls is Domain naming
>> master.  However, the DNS seems to be fine.  I pinged half a dozen
>> random web sites and they are resolved fine.
>>
>
> I am getting a lot of these in my send log:
>
> 08-19 16:28:02 delivery 1264: deferral: 
> Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMT
> P_connection._(#4.4.1)/
>

Ok... here is something interseting:

[r...@mail ~]# dig yahoo.com mx

; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> yahoo.com mx
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 3699
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 6

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;yahoo.com.                     IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 c.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 f.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 g.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 a.mx.mail.yahoo.com.
yahoo.com.              2218    IN      MX      1 b.mx.mail.yahoo.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
c.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       216.39.53.3
c.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       216.39.53.2
d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       68.142.202.247
d.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       209.191.88.247
e.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       216.39.53.1
a.mx.mail.yahoo.com.    1133    IN      A       67.195.168.31

;; Query time: 7 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.5#53(192.168.1.5)
;; WHEN: Wed Aug 19 16:37:41 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 257

[r...@mail ~]# telnet 216.39.53.3 25
Trying 216.39.53.3...
telnet: connect to address 216.39.53.3: No route to host
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host
[r...@mail ~]# ping 216.39.53.3 25
PING 25 (0.0.0.25) 56(124) bytes of data.

--- 25 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms

[r...@mail ~]# ping 216.39.53.3
PING 216.39.53.3 (216.39.53.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 216.39.53.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=38.1 ms
64 bytes from 216.39.53.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=37.4 ms
64 bytes from 216.39.53.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=39.2 ms
64 bytes from 216.39.53.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=37.5 ms

--- 216.39.53.3 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 3003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 37.421/38.106/39.248/0.718 ms, pipe 2
[r...@mail ~]#


Notice the No route to Host - should I be able to telnet to the
yahoo.com email server port 25?

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