Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU!PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be From: PIRARD%vm1.ulg.ac.be@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Andr'e PIRARD) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Sendmail/SMTP/TCP mystery? Message-ID: <9102271032.AA23671@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 27 Feb 91 08:32:22 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 On Mon, 25 Feb 91 15:33:52 GMT William Jaynes said: >(Deferred: Connection timed out during result wait with uv1.im.med.umich.edu) >These messages never get delivered. All attempts fail until they time out and >are bounced. >The mailhub is a SunSLC. The host in question is a Vax running some >Wollengong TCP-IP/SMTP etc. software. Up until last week there was not a A problem we've had seems just faintly related, but might help. A Ultrix host was repeatedly trying to send to a Sun what appears to be the end part of a mail item, until the 3-days limit expired. [ub4b.cs.kuleuven.ac.be to georges.montefiore.ulg.ac.be] 19 lines from a dest queue file w/o control starting (probably spilled here): returns the network address and name of all the subscribers. If you do not wish your name to be available to others in this fashion, just issue a "SET MACMAIL -- etc..., end of quote -- On each and every attempt, the Sun's sendmail was producing a core dump. I am in charge of none of those hosts, just routing in between. The problem may have be started by a longer than usual outage of routers in test. Yet. Andr'e PIRARD SEGI, Univ. de Li`ege B26 - Sart Tilman B-4000 Li`ege 1 (Belgium) pirard@vm1.ulg.ac.be or PIRARD%BLIULG11.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU