From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 26 06:40:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA20931 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 06:40:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from mailman.campbellsci.com ([207.201.118.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA20926 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 06:40:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from travis@campbellsci.com) Received: from gary_roberts (GADIANTON.campbellsci.com [207.201.118.5]) by mailman.campbellsci.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.0) with SMTP id AAA238 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:40:08 -0700 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: travis@campbellsci.com (Gary Travis Roberts) Organization: Campbell Scientific, Inc. To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 07:42:36 -07:0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: What happens if? X-Confirm-Reading-To: travis@campbellsci.com X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.54) Message-ID: <19971126144003735.AAA238@GADIANTON.campbellsci.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sorry, This is a little off the subject. We had an interesting experience here this last Monday when our service provider's (the one that provides our connection to the Internet backbone) router failed. When this happened our domain was essentially unreachable. My question to the group is. What happens to E-mail in this situation. We have a few theorys here, but have never read anything that explicitly states that these are fact. Anyone know for sure what is going on with E-mail for servers that are unreachable? Is there such a thing as lost E-mail? We currently are using Netscape Mail Server and NT but have since grown wiser and are now in the process of moving our systems to Free BSD. Thanks for your help. G. Travis Roberts KC7HHK MIS Software Engineer / Assistant Network Administrator Campbell Scientific, Inc.