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> ....The problem wasn't QuickDNS,
TCP/IP stack/SMTP
From: Micaela Carr
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000
Time: 3:49:25 pm
> but the TCP/IP stack, which had become corrupted. Nothing crashed,
> but the machine was deaf to the network.
Question 1:
re the above--
Setup: G4, Mac OS 9.0.4, QuickDNS, AppleShare IP 6.3.1
My mailserver was crashing 5-6x/week, was extremely slow to accept mail from
the clients, and then went deaf on the network!, so I upgraded it to OS
9.0.4 from 9.0.2, and to ASIP 6.3.1 from 6.3 and it seemed to work for a few
hours, then crashed quite permanently it seemed, so I rebuilt it. (I know
this is extreme behaviour but I am the help-desk/hw/sw person for our entire
little company, and they keep me way too busy!) It is working now, but is
VERY sluggish, not accepting mail quickly at all, and not responding to
queries by my remote (on the LAN) server admin program very quickly either.
Is it possible that the TCP/IP stack got corrupted as mentioned above? And
if that is possible, how do you fix it?
If it is an SMTP problem, as I got some indication that it was not
"understanding" SMTP, how would that be tracked down? Sorry to ask such
simple questions.
Question 2:
I am adding another mail server but am wondering how I would set up DNS for
this -- we are using NAT, and mail is pointed by our firewall, and by QDNS
to a particular machine on the network 192.168.100.27. QDNS is currently on
another host.
Do I need to add a secondary DNS server? -and how do you designate it as
secondary? is it just the way you set up the records?
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