Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Exchange 2003 Messages with unreachable destination, event id 4003, 984



Faced today with an unusual problem on the server Exchange 2003. Messages to one of the domains are stuck in the queue: "Messages with unreachable destination". Despite all attempts to restart the services and server messages do not go, but using telnet message domain go successfully. To understand the reason I enable the Diagnostic Logging in properties on Exchange server:



and found an interesting event id 4003 and 984 in the Application log: “The domain 'contoso.com' is currently unreachable.”, “NextHopType=CURRENTLY_UNREACHABLE” 


The decision was simple: I created a special connector for this domain and messages go.