RE: messages stuck in queue "awaiting directory lookup"

  • From: "John Tolmachoff \(Lists\)" <johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'[ExchangeList]'" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 08:54:37 -0700

Reaching here, but if DNS is misconfigured, that could cause a problem in
reaching the GC.

John Tolmachoff
Engineer/Consultant/Owner
eServices For You


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Periyasamy, Raj [mailto:Raj.Periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 8:47 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: messages stuck in queue "awaiting directory
lookup"
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> Mike,
> This may be related to your problem,
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;251746
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raj
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. M. Salim [mailto:msalim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 11:30 AM
> To: [ExchangeList]
> Subject: [exchangelist] RE: messages stuck in queue "awaiting directory
> lookup"
> 
> http://www.MSExchange.org/
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > What happens when you send to an external recipient, is it getting
> > through or gets queued up. How many Exchange servers do you have ?
> > If you have multiple servers, are these messages waiting in queue in
> the
> > server where the mailboxes are located, or is it queued in a different
> > Exchange server ?
> 
> sending to external users works fine.  There is only one Exchange server
> for this organization, no FE/BE or clustering etc.
> 
> As an aside: The exchange server is running the MS DNS server integrated
> into the Active Directory with a forward zone for the exchange server's
> external domain name (exmail.theirdomainname.com).  The main domain's
> nameserver is hosted elsewhere (for theirdomainname.com) and is running
> on
> a non-Windows server and has an "A" record pointing to the exchange
> server
> (exmail.theordomainname.com), and that NS also has MX records pointing
> to
> exmail.theirdomainname.com.  I mention all this because it was stuck in
> the "Awaiting directory lookup" queue wwhich could possibly be related
> to
> DNS, but then again, maybe not.  Like I said, restarting DNS server did
> not help.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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