"DNS Transaction Timeout?" Topic
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12 Jun 2009 6:17 a.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "DNA Transaction Timeout?" to "DNS Transaction Timeout?"
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 12 Jun 2009 6:16 a.m. PST |
What would cause this? One of the manufacturers is losing emails, and the error message that comes back to the sender is "DNS transaction timeout" I presume DNS is domain name server? Is that where the error lies, then? |
| Who asked this joker | 12 Jun 2009 6:23 a.m. PST |
DNS server is too busy? The error implies that an initial connection was made but the DNS server could not complete the transaction for whatever reason. Could be routing or access issue. Could be a load problem on the DNS server. There could be many other things wrong as well but it would be impossible to tell without having access to the logs. |
| Lentulus | 12 Jun 2009 6:34 a.m. PST |
One of my son's machine recently had a virus that, among other things, messed up DNS access. Apps using straight IP numbers would work, but not anything with a domain name. |
| Grizwald | 12 Jun 2009 6:39 a.m. PST |
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| Who asked this joker | 12 Jun 2009 6:57 a.m. PST |
I trust that since the logs are from 2002 that those are not the actual logs?  |
| KatieL | 12 Jun 2009 8:31 a.m. PST |
Mailservers try a reverse DNS for incoming mail, usually to check that the machine connecting has HELOd properly and also because many spammers don't have a reverse DNS.. If the mailserver can't contact a DNS, it may be bouncing the mail. |
| Vicshere | 12 Jun 2009 9:06 a.m. PST |
Do an IP config /flush DNS to clear your local resolver cache. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 12 Jun 2009 11:52 a.m. PST |
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