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From: rick@SEISMO.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: uunet catch-22: help!
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Date: 3 Oct 88 20:46:46 GMT
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As well as I can determine, the problem results from bad routes
resulting in extraordinary round trip times. The uunet computer was up
and happy.

There are several people claiming that someone is turning on packet
filtering on some of the mail bridges and screwing up the SMTP
traffic.  I have no data for or against that argument, so we can treat
it as an ugly rumor. (But it certainly would explain things!)

If anyone has a spare 1822 board for a Protoen gateway that they would
like to lend us for a few months, it would make things easier... As it
is, we are forced to continue limping along with running BRL's gateway
software on a PDP-11/44 with an LH/DH-11.

In the long run, we are scheduled to be connected to NSFNet (SURANET)
late this year. As far as routing goes, based on some stories I've
heard, I'm not sure if that will be an improvement or not!

---rick