Microsoft KB Archive/157015

= XCON: MTA Outbound Connection Refused by X.400 Host =

Article ID: 157015

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q157015



SYMPTOMS
Outbound connections from Microsoft Exchange Server are refused by the destination Message Transfer Agent (MTA) using X.400.



CAUSE
The reserved byte in the RFC1006 TPKT header is not necessarily 0x0 in the Microsoft Exchange MTA. This can cause connection attempts to remote MTAs to fail if the remote RFC1006 implementation requires this byte to be 0x0.

This byte is not specified to be a particular value according to RFC1006.



MORE INFORMATION
A trace of the faulting connection might yield a packet similar to the following. The line of interest in this particular situation is ISO: Reserved = 0 (0x0). The following sample shows the Reserved field with the new behavior, specifically the Reserved field will always be explicitly set to 0x0. If this field shows this to be any other value, this may be the cause of the connection failure and is corrected in SP3.

  TPDU Type: Connection Request, Len: 14 199.199.199.199 200.200.200.200 IP

FRAME: Base frame properties ETHERNET: ETYPE = 0x0800 : Protocol = IP: DOD Internet Protocol IP: ID = 0xC6B5; Proto = TCP; Len: 58 TCP: .AP..., len:  18, seq:  93150219-93150236, ack: 508652377, win: 8760, src: 2185 dst:  102 ISO: RFC 1006 ISO Packet, ver: 3, Len: 4 ISO: Version = 3 (0x3) ISO: Reserved = 0 (0x0)<===== RIGHT HERE ISO: Length = 18 (0x12) ISO: Data: Number of data bytes remaining = 14 (0x000E) TPDU: Type: Connection Request, Len: 14



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Exchange Server version 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Exchange Service Pack. For information on obtaining the Service Pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

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