| Title: | SEAL |
| Moderator: | GALVIA::SMITH |
| Created: | Mon Mar 21 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1989 |
| Total number of notes: | 8209 |
Hi I have installed an AFW NT 1.1 at a customer site. The only special requirements are that the customer does not have an internal mail hub. So, I modified all the alarms and reports so no mailing was taking place. I did not setup AltaVista Mail that came with the package. After installation the firewall seemed to be working fine. After a week users starting using web, ftp and telnet. The firewall is now is now hardly functioning at all. Telnet, ftp and web are all not fuctioning. It seems that the firewall is being overloaded as the cpu is up very high. I have turned caching off. After killing the smtp process the cpu dropped to about 30%. Still the other relays are not working properly. After looking at the smtp logs I find this line all throughout the logs. It seems the the firewall is mailing itself. Can some tell me what it means and tell me if this could be causing the problem. Any other ideas? Mar 7 17:12:22 gatekeeper SmtpXD[113]: Log: SMTPSTART: Connected to host gatekeeper.hahs.health.nsw.gov.au/10.16.0.1 via smtp relay Mar 7 17:12:29 gatekeeper SmtpXD[113]: Log: REPORTSTATS: user 'postmaster' local host 'gatekeeper.hahs.health.nsw.gov.au/10.16.0.1' remote host 'gatekeeper.hahs.health.nsw.gov.au/10.16.0.1' imported 227 bytes, exported 118098 bytes, in 7 seconds Andrew S
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| 1900.1 | BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::Mayne | A wretched hive of scum and villainy | Mon Mar 31 1997 18:16 | 8 | |
Given that mail is being sent to postmaster, I'd say that mail was looping back because the firewall can't send mail. Have you looked in the mail queue to see what the contents of the mail is? The answer is probably to set up an internal mail hub. You can probably find a free one; find a spare internal system and install it there. PJDM | |||||
| 1900.2 | avm and dns problem | SNOFS1::stylia.sno.dec.com::snov14::stylianoua | Tue Apr 01 1997 04:10 | 8 | |
I installed the AFW NT1.1 and mailserver and got the same problem. I played around with the dns and mailserver for some time and finally got it all working. I now need to simulate this at the customer site. When I find out exactly what I did wrong I will tell. Andrew S | |||||
| 1900.3 | SNOFS1::stylia.sno.dec.com::snov14::stylianoua | Mon Apr 07 1997 00:22 | 21 | ||
OK So I setup the AVmail server on teh firewall for NT. It did help a little in that the firewall can send mail etc, BUT The firewall sometime fails to respond totally. At times, all services are not available and then suddenly after 6hrs of downtime the firewall starts to work. Questions 1. Has anyone tested service pak2 for alpha on the nt firewall 2. Has anyone setup the avmail sever on the firewall. 3. Why does the firewall manual tell you not to specify an internal default gateway? Andrew S | |||||