Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!CUNYVM!YBMCU From: YBMCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Ben Yalow) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.linkfail Subject: Re: SMTP@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 90 16:34:10 GMT Sender: Link failure announcements Reply-To: Ben Yalow Lines: 16 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM.BITNET Gateway Comments: To: Comserve Editorial Staff , LINKFAIL mailing list In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 28 Feb 90 10:08:12 EST On Wed, 28 Feb 90 10:08:12 EST you said: >Suddenly SMTP@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU, the regional interbit gateway, is returning >virtually everything sent to it. Delivery errors suggest that it cannot >find any of the internet addresses to which it is being asked to delivery. >All these addresses have worked in the past few days. Anyone know what's >going on? > >Tim Stephen >RPI For a short time, the root nameserver at NYSERnet was returning unknown domain errors in response to some queries - when they fixed their nameserver, everything went ok. At this time, everything seems to be working. During this time, it looks like a few percent or so of the mail was erroneously returned. Most of the mail was being delivered correctly.