Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:00:14 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail storm Message-ID: <199512110800.JAA11472@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951210185127.10944B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Dec 10, 95 06:51:55 pm
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As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > >Overnight I had received 650 mails or so (instead of 120 - my > > >normal daily load) and many of these are deja-vu mails. > > > > Me too. I detect funny ``Received: '' lines, 550 mails via ra.dkuug.dk > > and 100 mails via th-darmstadt.de. > > send me one, including headers please, if you have any that you > have not deleted There's a simple explanation. The gateway between the German educational network (WiN) and the US lines is known to suck rocks. Last week, the entire situation has been hardened by the fact that some MCI.net link inside US additionally appears to drop many packets on the floor. This caused a situation where the packet lossage exceeded 50 % almost the entire week. (Normally, when MCI is working well, the WiN gateway gets better by night hours.) This caused many mails being deferred on freefall, only ~ 20 % of all mails came through. Some of the mails have been deferred from Monday 4th, until Saturday 9th! By Friday, Poul-Henning has been playing with his new mail forwarder for Northern Europe (ra.dkuug.dk), which caused many of the queued mails to drain from freefall via his site. Then, Michael Beckmann offered zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de, and Poul-Henning has changed the mail routing again. Now all i hope is that the next week will not repeat the disaster from the previous one (th-darmstadt.de is also connected on the WiN, and therefore dependant from the poor WiN<->US gateway(s)). Chris and Wolfram: did you really get _duplicates_? Check carefully; i didn't find any duplicate among the ~ 600 mails. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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