[22263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: appearently so: hotmail.com ... again ?!?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Delucchi)
Fri Dec 18 16:13:51 1998
From: "Randy Delucchi" <rdelucchi@hotmail.com>
To: carl@telia.net, nanog@merit.edu, hostmaster@jsnet.com, support@EXODUS.NET,
rader@teak.wiscnet.net
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:38:01 PST
We're upgrading our mailservers, during this process, you may see
intermittant deferrals, refusals, and larger than normal queues. It can
be mitigated by resending, esp. at offpeak times. We hope to be finished
and back to normal shortly. Sorry for the hassle.
Randy Delucchi, Dir of CS/NOC
MSN Hotmail (408) 222-7037
>To: Carl Moberg <carl@telia.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
rdelucchi@HOTMAIL.COM,
> hostmaster@jsnet.com, support@EXODUS.NET
>cc: rader@teak.wiscnet.net
>Subject: appearently so: hotmail.com ... again ?!?
>Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 10:48:00 -0600
>From: steve rader <rader@teak.wiscnet.net>
>
>
> > From: Carl Moberg
> > I am (once again) experiencing _heavy_ problems delivering
> > mail to mail.hotmail.com. My SMTP sessions keep timing out
> > in the initial phase. TCP is up clean but it seems like
> > the servers are having a hard time producing anything SMTP-like.
> > Anyone else ?
>
>Carl:
>
>Us too... see enclosed which I sent yesterday afternoon but
>didn't seem to make it through to the list. (It was accepted
>by mail.merit.edu with id OAA21910?!)
>
>My mrtg graphs show it started on tuesday at about 1000-1200 CST.
>Some msgs flush around 0300-0400 every night, but mail.hotmail.com
>certainly isn't keeping up:
>
> - tuesday's peak was ~460 msgs
> - wednesday's peak was ~690
> - last night it hit 902
>
>
>Javasoft & Exodus:
>
>(I doubt rdelucchi@HOTMAIL.COM will get this msg...)
>Please let hotmail know there smtp msg throughput has
>really sucked rocks the last ~ 72 hrs. Thanks.
>
>
>steve
>-- -- -- --
>Steve Rader
>Systems and Network Manager
>WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin
>rader@wiscnet.net
>bash: syntax error near unexpected token `=:)'
>
>------- Forwarded Message
>
>Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 13:57:33 -0600
>From: steve rader <rader@teak>
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: hotmail has gone cold!?!
>
>
>Anybody know what's up with hotmail? To wit...
>
> gomer(rader): mailq | grep Deferred | grep mail.hotmail.com | wc -l
> 593
>
>steve
>- -- -- -- --
>Steve Rader
>Systems and Network Manager
>WiscNet--Internetworking for Wisconsin
>rader@wiscnet.net
>bash: syntax error near unexpected token `=:)'
>
>
>------- End of Forwarded Message
>
>
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