Re: Anybody know what to look for in a Trace Route for SMTP?

That is exactly what you are looking for.  That retry loop is where the
problem is coming in.  Look at the IP address and/or DNS address
it is trying to contact that it is failing on.  That is why it is not getting
out.

If it's getting out you wouldn't be getting that loop, but it would keep
going to different machines 'til it finished.  Try a traceroute on
www.microsoft.com or something so you'll know what a good one
looks like.  Or even www.midrange.com 8-)

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:

> I am trying to figure out what is happening with the mail on our V4R4
> machine.  I downloaded the PTF that IBM reccomended for tracing.
>
> I got the spooled file(s) generated from doing a traceroute, but I'm not
> sure what to look for.  It looks like it's doing DNS resoultion ok, but it
> then seems like it's going into a retry loop until max retries is up.
>
> Anyone know what to look for wether it will tell me if the mail was sent or
> not?
>
> Brad

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