10 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-ispRe: sendmail read errors/timeouts etc.| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Scott Overholser | May 17, 1996 6:41 pm | |
| Doug Wellington | May 18, 1996 12:26 am | |
| Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com | May 18, 1996 11:33 am | |
| J Wunsch | May 18, 1996 11:58 am | |
| Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange) | May 19, 1996 12:49 pm | |
| Michael Dillon | May 19, 1996 1:56 pm | |
| Scott Overholser (Volt Computer) (Exchange) | May 19, 1996 3:04 pm | |
| Pete Carah | May 22, 1996 1:29 pm | |
| Scott Overholser | May 29, 1996 1:11 am | |
| Bruce Evans | May 29, 1996 4:22 am |
| Subject: | Re: sendmail read errors/timeouts etc. | |
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| From: | J Wunsch (j...@uriah.heep.sax.de) | |
| Date: | May 18, 1996 11:58:33 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-isp | |
As Scott Overholser wrote:
the troublesome sites (that i know of) are microsoft.com, msn.com, and noa.com. i *absolutely* cannot send mail to reci...@microsoft.com or reci...@noa.com. i seem to be able to send mail to reci...@msn.com
Don't know if this is related, but we recently discovered (while hunting for a problem with some self-written Winlose 95 rsh-client) that Winlose 95 doesn't know how to handle TCP connections. Not that this really suprised me, but it effectively makes any rsh command useless that tries to take data from stdin.
The bug is that Winlose never sends a FIN flag, but immediately sends a package with an RST in it. This causes the remote command to be aborted (as opposed to see a closed connection, and process it as an EOF condition).
Since your problems always happen while the sendmail is waiting for the QUIT handshake, it may be the same problem.
Dunno if this is only apparent for some version of Winlose 95.
-- cheers, J"org
joer...@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)