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From: john@waikato.ac.nz (John Houlker)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.205657.2990@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 24 Feb 91 07:56:57 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu>
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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In article <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu>,
dsmith@xylem.uoregon.edu (Dale Smith) writes:
> 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.

Yes, we see this and also have intervals of no IP connectivity
to nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (like now).
> 
> It seems outrageous that all mail to the UK is shoved through one
> system.

Some UK mail goes via other gates but nsfnet-relay.ac.uk sure
handles a lot, a backup would be much appreciated.

John Houlker


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