[165112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail.mil contact?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike A)
Mon Aug 19 15:50:13 2013
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:49:40 -0500
From: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.03.1308160712490.2742@lavanauts.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 07:25:11AM -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> Wondering if anyone else is receiving reports of email to mail.mil
> addresses being delayed or refused? The mail.mil mx appear to be
> selectively refusing mail.
>
> If anyone has good (non-email) contact info for the mail.mil operators
> please send it my way. Thanks.
I see this frequently in the dayjob; I suspect and conjecture that the
operators are doing some sort of configuration stuff, and we see the part
where mail receipt gets balky. I have found that calling the IT folks at the
receiving installation often gets a "They're doing things upstream, and we're
down until they finish" response.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
