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From: a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <1158@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 25 Feb 91 09:16:11 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu>
Sender: terpstra@nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra)
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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.

As you may know you can reach the UK via the link from the US to ULCC in
London, where also the nsfnet-relay.ac.uk is. They seem to have a great deal
of problems with their link. We (in Europe) do not have the problem you have
because there's a link from Amsterdam to ULCC we use.

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

Maybe it is. As you may know IP is only getting started in the UK so please
have some patience with them. There is another way of getting mail to the UK,
but that one is not advertised via the DNS. It can be delivered via EUnet.
This goes via mcsun.eu.net and then to the UK EUnet backbone in Kent. This
however does not help you with your queues.

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

Don't know. I do know that there are discussions on backup arrangements for
their link to the US. We hope to reach such an agreement somewhere this
month.

If you see a lot of these problems you may try to reach tony@ean-relay.ac.uk,
or via EUnet tony%ean-relay.ac.uk@mcsun.eu.net.

Marten
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