[51303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Thu Aug 22 18:37:39 2002
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<Pine.LNX.4.44.0208220715560.1498-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 23:26:32 +0200
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 7:19 AM +0200 2002/08/22, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Here are two examples. I have seen email with 20+ minutes delay even on
> the last hop to me, though in the first example it was only 4-5 minutes.
> In the first example most of the delay is within merit, on the last one
> the majority of the delay is from trapdoor to my box.
But we don't know what the *cause* is of the delay between Merit
& your box. That might be caused by network problems between the two
points, your box temporarily being unavailable, or whatever.
We just don't have enough information to make a determination as
to whose fault this problem is.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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