Re: {bb} weird problem with smtp

[Jobst Schmalenbach <jobst@barrett.com.au>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:56:20PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach (jobst@barrett.com.au) wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I have a problem with one of my machines returning a bad result every second test:
> 
>   adminserver.mms.vic.edu.au.smtp red Mon Sep 26 12:11:17 EST 2005 SERVER - smtp DOWN
>   adminserver.mms.vic.edu.au.smtp red Mon Sep 26 12:31:16 EST 2005 SERVER - smtp DOWN
>   adminserver.mms.vic.edu.au.smtp red Mon Sep 26 12:51:16 EST 2005 SERVER - smtp DOWN
>   adminserver.mms.vic.edu.au.smtp red Mon Sep 26 13:11:17 EST 2005 SERVER - smtp DOWN
> 
> every other test is green.
> 
> Both machines (BBDISPLAY/BBNET and the client) are "crusing" and do not report any 
> other problems of all the other services, just smtpd on the machine. This is not the 
> only network I am running and I have never seen this behaviour before.
> 
> Both machines are only 1 hop apart, and there is nothing going on on the network
> (school holidays ...).
> 
> 
> I looked at cron logs whether something is running in parallel but I cant see anything.
> 


I had to reboot both off them (I had to move the rack they are in)
and the reboot "solved" it.

They are reporting fine now.

I never like this kind of solving as one doesnt know what the problem was,
I had not changed anything on both for a while. I dont think it could
be a cable, cause that would report faults on more then one service.


BTW, with one hop I mean they are next to each other, meaning
they are connected via a cross cable.



jobst




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