Re: Unacceptable Delay

["Susan R. Harris" <srh () merit edu>]

Hello Brett - thanks for pointing out the mail slowdown. As it turns out,
there were problems with Merit's SMTP service on Friday evening: our mail
queuing file system filled up, and mail service was out for a couple of
hours.  Sorry for the inconvenience. To improve performance, we're in the
process of moving mail to a new machine with more disk space.  
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Susan R. Harris, Ph.D.         Merit Network, Inc.         srh () merit edu
Phone: (313) 936-2100          Fax:  (313) 647-3185
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 On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Brett D. Watson wrote:

>   we've just received a bunch of nanog mail here at genuity that was
> delay *eight* hours between the time it reached merit.edu, and the
> time our mx host recieved it from merit, according to the headers.
> we've received external mail from all over the place all day with no
> apparent delay.  has *no* one else seen any great delays in the
> messages from nanog?
>
>   i don't think the packet loss has been that bad for 8 hours. :)
>
> -brett
>
> > I would say a lot of the delay is in packet loss.. with MW down, ME is
> > really loaded at this time.. I get as much as 60% packet loss just pinging
> > across the Ring.  OUCH!
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________________
> >       Eric D. Madison - Senior Network Engineer -   
> >  ACSI - Advanced Data Services - ATM/IP Backbone Group  
> >    24 Hour NMC/NOC (800)291-7889 Email: noc () acsi net
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Rodney Joffe wrote:
> >
> > > It's interesting to note the delay in the NANOG mailer. I don't know if
> > > there's any manual operation involved, but according to the headers, Rob
> > > posted this at 7:43, it was received at 7:43 pdt by MERIT, and shipped
> > > out at 8:15 pdt.
> > >
> > > I guess we're lucky this isn't an operational list, where time might be
> > > important ;-)
> > >
> > > Can we improve this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Rodney Joffe
> > > Chief Technology Officer
> > > Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company
> > > http://www.genuity.net
> > >
> > > Received: from postal1.genuity.net by x-files.genuity.net with SMTP
> > > (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49)
> > >   id 3T51M8BZ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 08:15:13 -0700
> > > Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [198.108.1.42])
> > >   by postal1.genuity.net (Sendmail G2.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id
> > > PAA19251;
> > >   Fri, 11 Jul 1997 15:15:28 GMT
> > > Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost)
> > >   by merit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA15550;
> > >   Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Received: by merit.edu (bulk_mailer v1.5); Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:43:51
> > > -0400
> > > Received: (from majordom@localhost)
> > >   by merit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA15338
> > >   for nanog-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:43:49 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Received: from elite.exodus.net (rob () elite exodus net [209.1.115.69])
> > >   by merit.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA15331
> > >   for <nanog () merit edu>; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 10:43:41 -0400 (EDT)
> > > Received: (from rob@localhost) by elite.exodus.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) id
> > > HAA04422 for nanog () merit edu; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:43:52 -0700
> > > From: Robert Bowman <rob () elite exodus net>
> > > Message-Id: <199707111443.HAA04422 () elite exodus net>
> > > Subject: It's always fun
> > > To: nanog () merit edu
> > > Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:43:52 -0700 (PDT)
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