Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!SIMTEL20.ARPA!WANCHO From: WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: ARPANET congestion? Message-ID: Date: Sun, 28-Sep-86 00:21:00 EDT Article-I.D.: SIMTEL20.WANCHO.12242434551.BABYL Posted: Sun Sep 28 00:21:00 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 28-Sep-86 16:42:52 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa Over the past three weeks, we have been able to receive mail from ARPANET hosts but not able to even establish connections, or when a connection has been eventually established, send mail and receive acknowledgements within rather generous timeouts to those same hosts. This one-way performance has also been observed in eventually established TELNET connections to various ARPANET hosts, where single-character echoes may take several *minutes* while continuous output, such as directory listings, appear normally. According to the NOC, this is a known problem which is being investigated. Could we have an intermediate report concerning the problem? Are only certain hosts involved? (Our most persistent and common problems have been with CSNET-RELAY and WISCVM due to the volume of mail they pass.) --Frank