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From: dsmith@xylem.uoregon.edu (Dale Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 18:19:58 GMT
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Reply-To: dsmith@xylem.uoregon.edu (Dale Smith)
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
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Grrrrrrr!!   Is anyone else having big trouble trying to deliver
mail to the UK???  I have hundreds of messages queued up for
delivery, but I can't connect to nsfnet-relay.ac.uk via smtp.
It seems like it has to be a broken mailer on their end of
things, since I can telnet to it and pings average 1/2 second
round trip.  A telnet session opens pretty quick, but telnetting
to the smtp port results in a "connection timed out" message.
This has been happening for 3 days now.

It seems outrageous that all mail to the UK is shoved through one
system.

Does anyone out there know what is going on and when it might be
fixed.

Dale Smith, Assistant Director of Network Services
University of Oregon		Internet: dsmith@ns.uoregon.edu
Computing Center		BITNET: dsmith@oregon.bitnet
Eugene, OR  97403-1212		Voice:503-346-4394  FAX:503-346-4397


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