Niall O Broin wrote:
> On 13 Jun 2006, at 08:55, Luke Ashe-Browne wrote:
>>> the fact that it has a seperate ip to most other sites on the server
>> could
>> possibly be a point.. if there's a routing problem with just that ip,
>> and
>> not the main ip which serves the other vhosts on your server, surely
>> that
>> could be the cause. If you brought up a trouble ticket with the hosting
>> company, did they just check the servers main ip? or did they think
>> to check
>> this secondary dedicated ip? this would certainly explain why the other
>> sites would continue to receive traffic and this site fail to do so.
>>> Yes, it would. However, this domain also gets mail on that address,
> and it seemed to be receiving mail OK during that time. Also, this
> server has numerous IPs - it would be an odd routing problem indeed
> that would affect only one of them.
Did the mails came in via a secondary MX, or straight from outside
servers? A routing glitch that blackholed the domain from outside but
not from the POV of a secondary MX might give you this behaviour.
Ronan
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