I replaced a Domino server with a new box back on Dec.28th. Everything was running fine until yesterday. Around 4:30 all inbound traffic stopped. Users could not replicate, e-mail was not being received, etc. However, mail was being sent out, internet access still worked as I was able to update virus definitions.
I restarted the server and deleted the mail.box file to no avail.
After talking with our ISP who verified everything was good on their end, I put the oringinal server back on-line and everything is fine.
I have checked the new server and can’t find anything wrong.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
Subject: All Inbound traffic stops
Is Windows firewall (or other firewall application) enabled on the new box? Is IPSec being used?
Sounds like something at the network level, can you use remote desktop or telnet to access the new box? Or is only Domino (port 1352) that’s not responding?
I suggest removing anything that might block network communication and see if you can get the server to start responding again.
Subject: RE: All Inbound traffic stops
No windows firewall is enabled. I can telnet to inside NIC, but not the outside. Yet internet access works and outbound mail is routing via both SMTP and Notes.
It appears all inbound traffic is stopped (HTTP, Notes, mail, etc) as users can’t replicate, web page will not pull up and no inbound e-mail is being received.
What’s strange is it was running fine for a week when I did the replacement.
Subject: RE: All Inbound traffic stops
Did you happen to change the adapter binding order and change the internal NIC to be the first listed about the time Domino stopped responding? By default Domino will bind to the first adapter and won’t be accessible via the second, if the adapter order switched it could be the cause.
If you want Domino to respond on both ports do you have 2 seperate ports defined for Domino? If not it could be your problem, if you do I suggest checking the notes.ini of the server to make sure they are still appearing correctly. Both ports should appear in the Ports= line (such as TCPIP and TCPIP2) and you should see each port with it’s own entries, such as
TCPIP_TcpIPAddress=0,192.168.0.1:1352
TCPIP_TCPPortMapperOff=0,0
TCPIP=TCP,0,15,0,12288,
TCPIP_TCPConnectTimeout=0,30
If those aren’t it, have you tried swapping the NIC you’re using for your external connection to eliminate the possibility of a hardware failure?
HTH
Subject: Sounds like a dead NIC
Your outbound traffic is probably going out over your “inside NIC”. If that NIC has a default gateway assigned, it will find its way.