check_smtp times out

[Hugo van der Kooij]

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Julie S. Lin wrote:
| Hi All
|
| for one particular server (mail.borken.com)  it sporadically comes back
| "Socket timeout after 10 seconds " when doing smtp_checks.  however,
| another server
| "outside" the cisco pix firewall works fine doing the same check.  other
| checks involving mail.borken.com come back fine, so firewall doesn't
| appear to be
| an issue.

If you use any sort of SMTP checkup in your Cisco device then you should
count yourself lucky only the Nagios traffic is impaired.

SMTP is broken is so many ways inside Cisco equipment I can only
recommend to disable it completely and protect your SMTP traffic with a
real solution.

Hugo.

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	>Q: Are you sure?
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