Re: As my customer says it is an odd problem - is it DST, DNS or what? (long)



Bill Vermillion wrote:
The returned mail should have a great deal of info that you can use
to diagnose the problem.  Without seeing the error messages you can
tear your hair out trying to figure out the problem. [I go through
this quite often maintaining emails for an ISP and also for a few
outside machines]

Trying to gather some sample of the failures now. Should be easy right now to
check his connection and DNS since the guy withthe ftp is the only ethernet
besides the inbound vpn though a windows machine. Right now its his local
ethernet I am concerned with - we'll just make sure name/ip address
combinations for his and the sco machine are in each hosts file.

Once again thanks for all the input.

.



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