#500 Firewall Error ##
Posted August 22nd, 2009 . Comments Off .
Occasionally I have received the following error when trying to send emails to other organisation from Exchange 2007:
Diagnostic information for administrators:
Generating server: exchange-server.internal.domain.com
enduser@externaldomain.com
external.mail.server.domain.com #500 Firewall Error ##
It turns out that this is actually due to the Cisco router inspecting SMTP traffic. Entering the command below into IOS fixed the issue:
no ip inspect name SDM_LOW esmtp
Catastrophic Failure
Posted August 11th, 2009 . Comments Off .
Andy Aitken, a guy I work with, evidently abused his copy of Visual Studio 2008 to breaking point and got this message in return. Hats off.
UPDATE: It turns out that a week later I too rose to the dizzy heights of Aitken’s abuse: