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Are any other programs or services running?

Typical culprits are Server Admin and Retrospect. I think the Server Admin one was fixed in 10.4.6 (so you should be good to go there) and Retrospect only happens on duplicate operations. There are a number of other sources though so tell us what you’ve got!

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Update… not sure I really understand dns views.

I get the point of them, and in fact successfully setup a server which does respond with the local IP of the FQDN if queried locally, but the external ip if quered from any other subnet (i.e. externally). When thinking about actually implementing this, I realized I’m just running into the same problem again. Only this time with the dns query instead of imap service: packets intended for the source ip are discarded due to security concerns.

Secondary dns servers do respond after a delay, so technically I could just put the local dns server ip in first and the external second (with a tertiary for backup), but practically speaking the initial fail-over delay is too long for everyday use. I ended up making locations for an OS X user, which works okay but isn’t as seamless as I was hoping for.

Was I anticipating too much? What would a PC user do, with location support (afaik) not as good as OS X’s?

Thanks again for thoughts and suggestions, very much appreciated

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Thank you!! I will try this immediately.
Proper ways of doing things ftw. 😀

ps – I searched all over the forums for the best practices articles, wasn’t until you mentioned it this morning I thought to search the site in general (I found ’em). Maybe I’m just blind (possible!) but I wonder if a link in the forums to those articles would help? They’re mentioned all the time but no one links them.

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tfp is “task from pid.” Basically it takes the BSD process ID and returns the mach task associated with it.

I’ve seen this with machines running Kerio Mailserver before, I don’t believe it’s anything to be worried about.

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