Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:6815 news.admin:15075 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mjbtn!root From: root@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM (Mark J. Bailey [ADMIN]) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.admin Subject: Re: Is UUNET going to upgrade? Message-ID: <7360@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM> Date: 10 Jun 91 12:10:16 GMT References: <1991Jun8.210644.4897@shaman.com> Followup-To: comp.mail.uucp Organization: JobSoft Design & Development Co, Murfreesboro, TN Lines: 49 In <1991Jun8.210644.4897@shaman.com> jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes: > Does anyone know if UUNET is going to get an upgrade soon? I know >about their recent upgrade, but I've been experiencing severe delays when >communicating with them -- sometimes so severe my machine timeouts and >stops talking. Hi, Well, I was beginning to think it was me! :-) I have the following failure almost everytime I talk with uunet more than a few minutes: uucp uunet (6/10-5:22:55,20864,32) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetByCz2 --> mjbtn!D.uunetSyCz2 (uucp)) uucp uunet (6/10-5:23:12,20864,33) REMOTE REQUESTED (uunet!D.uunetXyCz0 --> mjbtn!X.uunetEyCz3 (uucp)) uucp uunet (6/10-5:26:44,20864,34) BAD READ (expected ANY got FAIL) uucp uunet (6/10-5:26:44,20864,34) FAILED (conversation complete tty2C 402) The real killer for me has been that NOTHING has changed in my site config- uration in MONTHS! All of this started around the time of their last "upgrade" as Jiro is indicating. I have also had a marked increase in the number of login failures (both to 800-lines and regular line) on the front end. In the past, uunet connections were almost never interrupted from start to finish. As Jiro has emphasized, something does need to be done. I have addressed my problems to postmaster@uunet (and while I know they are busy) but I have not been responded to yet. It seems that at a certain point, they will start moving "backwards" in time (much like the imense load on Simtel20 - a incomparibly valuable resource on a system that almost cannot operate with the load of archivees). Now, don't get me wrong, I am a very satisfied UUNET customer, and have been for a while. Surely new hardware and network topology should be possible with the revenues they must be generating (or are going to potentially generate - if looked at from possibly a banker's point of view). I too would like to hear other's feelings and comments on the situation and possibly some shared input from some of the uunet crew as well. The service is invaluable, but competition is growing, and I am not exactly thrilled that I am paying for 3 minutes (in some cases) of "dead" time when the timeout/ alarm sequence begins before a failure is reported. I am not mad, just a little concerned. Mark. -- Mark J. Bailey, N4XHX _______/====X11====\_______ USMAIL: 511 Memorial Blvd., Murfreesboro, TN 37129 | JobSoft | VOICE: +1 615 893 0098 | Design & Development Co.| UUCP: ...!uunet!mjbtn!mjb, ...!raider!mjbtn!mjb | Murfreesboro, TN USA | DOMAIN: mjb@mjbtn.JOBSOFT.COM CIS: 76314,160 ---------------------------