Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 10:36:33 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail storm Message-ID: <199512110936.KAA22192@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199512110800.JAA11472@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Dec 11, 95 09:00:14 am
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> > As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > > > >Overnight I had received 650 mails or so (instead of 120 - my > > > >normal daily load) and many of these are deja-vu mails. > > > > > > Me too. I detect funny ``Received: '' lines, 550 mails via ra.dkuug.dk > > > and 100 mails via th-darmstadt.de. > > > > send me one, including headers please, if you have any that you > > have not deleted > > There's a simple explanation. > > The gateway between the German educational network (WiN) and the US > lines is known to suck rocks. Last week, the entire situation has > been hardened by the fact that some MCI.net link inside US > additionally appears to drop many packets on the floor. This caused a > situation where the packet lossage exceeded 50 % almost the entire > week. (Normally, when MCI is working well, the WiN gateway gets > better by night hours.) This caused many mails being deferred on > freefall, only ~ 20 % of all mails came through. Some of the mails > have been deferred from Monday 4th, until Saturday 9th! > > By Friday, Poul-Henning has been playing with his new mail forwarder > for Northern Europe (ra.dkuug.dk), which caused many of the queued > mails to drain from freefall via his site. Then, Michael Beckmann > offered zit1.zit.th-darmstadt.de, and Poul-Henning has changed the > mail routing again. > > Now all i hope is that the next week will not repeat the disaster from > the previous one (th-darmstadt.de is also connected on the WiN, and > therefore dependant from the poor WiN<->US gateway(s)). > > Chris and Wolfram: did you really get _duplicates_? Check carefully; > i didn't find any duplicate among the ~ 600 mails. Yes, that's for sure - it were a lot of mails that I read already days before. Only good to know why all this happened :-) > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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