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I use Netscreen-5 as our Firewall and gateway. Here are 30 Windows 2k Professional  clients, 1 SQL server, 1 Exchange 2k Server + ISA 2K and 1 Win2k Server as DC.
My clients always report they lost internet connection in a short time, 5 mins. It was happened about each 3 hours. I checked Netscreen-5 Traffic log, and found out a lot of session like those:
Time Source Addr Translated Addr Destination Addr Duration Application
09/07/2004 11:50:08 10.0.0.2:16479 216.59.159.194:1788 206.71.59.7:25 1814 sec. SMTP (TCP)
09/07/2004 11:50:04 10.0.0.2:16434 216.59.159.194:1091 209.249.45.24:25 1818 sec. SMTP (TCP)
09/07/2004 11:50:05 10.0.0.2:16447 216.59.159.194:1195 200.223.8.81:25 1817 sec. SMTP (TCP)
09/07/2004 11:50:04 10.0.0.2:16432 216.59.159.194:1822 208.254.3.160:25 1818 sec. SMTP (TCP)
09/07/2004 11:50:05 10.0.0.2:16439 216.59.159.194:1805 65.118.157.201:25 1807 sec. SMTP (TCP)
09/07/2004 11:50:08 10.0.0.2:16476 216.59.159.194:1606 209.208.27.14:25 1804 sec. SMTP (TCP)

10.0.0.2 is my Exchange server. I believe it is the problem which use most of internet broadwidth. But I don't know what I need to do.

 
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taoyuxin .... after tracerouting the destination IP address I'm sure you have some virus/spyware on the server.
 206.71.59.7 is  mail1.bigfunoffers.com  .... that sounds suspect .... either someone from your domain sent a huge e-mail to someone on that domain and your exchnage server is not handling it correctly and restarts the job again and again, either some virus/spyware is generating those connections (most likely). I'd say you should check for viruses very carefully.
Here's a huge list of tools to do that:


Online virus scan

TrendMicro

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RAV

http://www.ravantivirus.com/scan

BitDefender

http://www.bitdefender.com/scan/licence.php

Panda

http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan

Kaspersky

http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html

Free AV software

AVG

http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php

AntiVir

http://www.free-av.com

Commercial AV software

Norton

http://www.symantec.com

McAfee

http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp

TrendMicro

http://www.trendmicro.com/en/home/us/personal.htm

Etrust EZ

http://www.my-etrust.com/products/Antivirus.cfm?WebRefferalAffiliate=IPE200000001&VDRID=EZ00000006

Panda

http://www.pandasoftware.com

Sophos

http://www.sophos.com/products

Kaspersky

http://www.sophos.com/products



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Hi kronostm, thanks a lot for your help. I totaly agree with you, "some virus/spyware is generating those connections".

I'm using Symantec Antivirus Small Business Edition V8.1 and Symantec Mail Security for MS-Exchange V4.5 in our network. I'm sure both of them virus definition are up-to-date and scheduled scanning job was running.

Yes, I was keeping getting a lot of alter about detected virus of Mydoom, Netsky and Beagle from Mail Security everyday. But I can't find out which client has sent those out. Do you have any idea to indicate sender machine from Exchange Manage Console or Mail Security(all those alters came from Symantec Mail Security for Exchange)

Those alter look like this:
Location of the infected item:  Administrator/Inbox
Sender of the infected item:  Administrator@edwardgroup.com Subject of the message:  Undeliverable:Mail System Error - Returned Mail The attachment "whao@edwardgroup.com.zip" was marked for Deletion for the following reasons:
             Virus W32.Mydoom.M@mm was found in whao@edwardgroup.com.htm                                                                                       .exe within whao@edwardgroup.com.zip.
            Virus W32.Mydoom.M@mm was found in whao@edwardgroup.com.zip.
            Virus W32.Mydoom.M@mm was found.

This was done due to the following Symantec Mail Security settings:
 Policy: Standard
   SubPolicy: Virus SubPolicy
   Rule: Mass-Mailer Virus Rule



Location of the infected item:  SMTP
Sender of the infected item:  Administrator
Subject of the message:  Delivery Status Notification (Failure) The attachment "message.scr" was marked for Deletion for the following reasons:
             Virus W32.Netsky.P@mm was found.

This was done due to the following Symantec Mail Security settings:
 Policy: Standard
   SubPolicy: Virus SubPolicy
   Rule: Mass-Mailer Virus Rule


Location of the message:  Edward H. Limjoco/Inbox
Sender of the message: Administrator@edwardgroup.com
Subject of the message:  Undeliverable:Weeeeee! ;)))

The attachment "TextDocument.zip" was Logged Only.

This was done due to the following Symantec Mail Security settings:
 Policy: Standard
   SubPolicy: Exception SubPolicy
   Rule: Encryption Rule
Hmmm .... who's Edward H. Limjoco ?
He is one of our employee. But he is just a receiver, not a sender. So I don't think here is any virus or spy on his computer.
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hi kronostm, finally, I found out the problem came from my BDC. My pataner had setup a new BDC but didn't create DNS zone for it. I installed DNS service on it and create it to be a DNS, the network traffic is very smooth now. Thanks for your help anyway.