On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Henri van Riel wrote: > I noticed something weird... I'm monitoring my mailserver very closely > because of the recent problems and I noticed x35.xmailserver.org > (69.30.125.51) connects to my server every now and then: > > # netstat -a | grep <myserver>:25, returns: > > tcp 0 0 <myserver>:25 x35.xmailserver.o:37670 ESTABLISHED > > This was a couple of minutes ago, around 5pm my time. > > Obviously I thought there was mail coming in from the list but when I > checked there was nothing. That's odd. To be sure, I checked my smtp > log and it said the last connection from that server was at 10:46 my > time... > > Shouldn't the connection have shown up in my smtp log? Why would a > server connect to xmail and not deliver mail? If it would have been > rejected it would have showed up in the log I think.
This can happen for various reasons, like your server stuck in a DNS local address resolution (done at the very beginning of the SMTP session) or by something happened to the network in the middle that broke the link. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
