Cannot connect to the smarhost which is our notes smtp server

Hello,

some of our users reach our local internet domain via Notes while the others via Outlook. I have set local internet domain smart host which is the IP address of our smtp notes server. The vast majority of our notes servers can connect to the smart host and forward messages to it when a recipient in local internet domain is not found in the Domino directory. However there are two servers which cannot connect to the smart host.

The log says:

Router: Transfer queue to server is pending, waiting for successful connect

Router: Destination queue sweep found transfer queue for ready to sweep with OPEN error: The server is not responding. The server may be down or you may be experiencing network problems. Contact your system administrator

Router: Transfer queue to server is pending sweep of unsuccessful connect

It is strange because I can ping, tracert, nslookup the from both notes server. The servers are in the same notes named network (using TCPIP) and notes routing is working fine. SMTP routing to external domains is set via connection document and also working fine. We are experiencing problem only regarding smart host. To tell the truth firstly we encountered some DNS resolving problem but we have resolved it with adding our DNS servers to the notes.ini of the servers’ (http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21090975).

Environment:

Lotus Domino R6.5.5FP3

Windows 2000 platform

Your help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Gabor

Subject: cannot connect to the smarhost which is our notes smtp server

SOLUTION:the following notes.ini variable contained the ports in wrong order:

Ports=Cluster,TCPIP

The right order is:

Ports=TCPIP,Cluster