dccm monitoring?

Hi,

some times it looks that dccm stops responding.
At the mail server I'm getting
Jan  5 11:06:52 mailer sm-mta[64979]: j05G5qBa064979: Milter (dcc): 
timeout before data read
Jan  5 11:06:52 mailer sm-mta[64979]: j05G5qBa064979: Milter (dcc): to 
error state
Jan  5 11:06:52 mailer sm-mta[64979]: j05G5qBa064979: Milter (dcc): init 
failed to open
Jan  5 11:06:52 mailer sm-mta[64979]: j05G5qBa064979: Milter (dcc): to 
error state

dccm runs on separate server with "-p inet:<port>@<ip address>" I don't 
exclude the problem with the OS (FreeBSD)
What I want to do is to monitor the dccm response and in case of timeout
to kill dccm and start it again because this fixes the problem ;)


Any idea how to do this? I was thinking to use telnet to the dccm's port 
but I'm not very fimiliar with the milter specifiations and I don't know 
what to send there (and what to expect;)

Thanks,

Val



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Valentin S. Chopov, CC[ND]P
Sys/Net Admin
SEI Data Inc.
E-Mail: valentin@valcho.net
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