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From: system@jach.Hawaii.Edu (Henry Stilmack - JAC Hawaii SysMgr)
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Subject: Re: problems with nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
Message-ID: <11680@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 02:16:50 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.181958.14608@ns.uoregon.edu>
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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.
>
>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.

I have found the same problem. Since we are in fact an "appendage" of the 
Royal Observatory at Edinburgh, this has been particularly annoying. As an 
interim measure, you might try using NASA's SPAN gateway. You will need the 
full JANET address of the target site, which is usually the same as the 
Internet address, except in reverse domain order (naturally! We all know 
the Brits drive on the wrong side of the road!).

For example, to mail to the Royal Observatory at Edinburgh, the syntax is:

  To: "cbs%uk.ac.roe.starlink::user"%rlesis@star.stanford.edu

Unfortunately, this does not generate a REPLYable header on some (VMS) 
machines.

Good luck!

______________________________________________________________________________
Henry Stilmack                               )  "Everybody's colored, or 
Computing Services Manager                   )   else you wouldn't be 
UK/Netherlands/Canada Joint Astronomy Centre )   able to see them."
hps@jach.Hawaii.Edu                          )    
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