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

Jim,

I emailed you privately with the traceroute. If anyone else wants a peek
email me and I'll send it to you.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [mailto:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 9:49 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Anybody know what to look for in a Trace Route for SMTP?
> 
> 
> I'm not too familiar with AS/400 Traceroutes, but I think I need a
> little more information.  Would it be possible for you to post a bit
> more of the traceroute info?  Like the DNS resolution.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> "Stone, Brad V (TC)" wrote:
> 
> > Here is what one of the looping parts looks like:
> >
> > client_main: started
> > client_main: request param 2,call timeoutck
> > timeoutck: started
> > timeoutck: ended
> > client_main: ended with return code 0
> > check_retries() called
> > check_retries returned, rc: 0
> > To switch on state of Mail_CB
> > Mail state: CRSLVMAIL_STATE, 00000003
> >
> > In another part (before this), it looks like it is looping 
> doing the DNS
> > resolution.  Before it gets to the above, it goes from one 
> DNS server 1, to
> > DNS server 2 to DNS server 3, and then back to DNS server 
> 1.  It does this
> > about 4 times and then goes to the loop shown above.
> >
> > I just wish I could make more sense of the report I got.  I 
> have a feeling
> > the network guys made some changes.
> >
> > Any idea what this means:
> >
> >  D.N.Server response RR is NS-type
> >
> > That seems to be part of the DNS resolution loop.
> 
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