RE: {bb} question acout repeted failures when there is none

["Ziccardi, Glenn (NCI)" <gziccard.nci@dtic.mil>]

make sure your mail server is in /etc/hosts

and it matches what is in bb-hosts with fully qualified name.

adjust bb to send you mail every 10 20 30 minutes in bbwarnrules.....

-----Original Message-----
From: c. smith [mailto:chrissmith@skywizard.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 12:13 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} question acout repeted failures when there is none


So is there any wy to adjust the time outs??  to allow for more time or
repeted tests?

Henrik Olsen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, c. smith wrote:
> > Subject: {bb} question acout repeted failures when there is none
> >
> > I just loaded BB yesterday ( the new version) and have the client set up
> > on my email server.  What i keep getting is the response from the email
> > server in smtp every other return is a red failure, and the server is
> > fine and is not failing and coming back every 10 min.
> >
> > Does this problem sound familiar to anyone??
> It would be more familiar if it had been a blink every 5 minutes, since
> that would have been an indication of two bb processes running at the same
> time.
> 
> Since it's 10 minutes, it sounds like it's a single test that fails very
> often, so it's probably caused by timeouts instead of outages.
> 
> Try to connect manually, eg. "telnet host.name 25", and check the time
> until the prompt appears, if this is around 20 seconds, then there's your
> reason for the blinking.
> 
> This timeout can be cause by multiple things, including bad/missing
> reverse DNS entries, failed auth/identd lookups, heavy load causing the
> server to throttle sendmail, flakey network etc.
> 
> > thanks
> >
> > chris
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