[83030] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: Cisco.com password reset.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard A Steenbergen)
Wed Aug 3 12:58:31 2005
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 12:58:00 -0400
From: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Cc: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20050803142620.GH16609@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 10:26:21AM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> I've talked to "People" at cisco before about email handling
> stuff, it takes them a lot of effort to make lists such as
> 'cust-security-announce' deliver quickly. I've had some experience
> tweaking large lists as well, it takes a significant amount
> of effort to deliver to 2k users quickly. Cisco has a lot more than
> that registered, and I suspect the delivery is a bit more complicated
> with all the dns/resolver load going after all the possible customer
> domains they have.
>
> To give you a rough idea (cisco-nsp for example is a list I host
> and is delivered fairly quickly by most peoples standards..)
> smtp to cisco-nsp for 2655 recips, completed in 341.639 seconds
>
> Now imagine if instead of 2655 users it was 1-1.5million,
> that puts it at 53 hours in my rough guestimate. (assuming i know
> what i'm talking about, and the higher number of 1.5m).
Perhaps Cisco should hire some spammers to consult for them. Those folks
certainly don't seem to have a ~7-8 mail/sec limitation. :)
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