Dropping email on the floor?

[Jeff Kinz]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 02:16:40PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > It seems I forgot some essential information, er, um, these two email
> > sources, internet.com and bulk.scd.yahoo.com are legitimate email
> > sources trying to send me email for various email lists that I signed up 
> > for.  I have been happily receiving email from them for some time but I
> > noticed that at some point in the past it was becoming unreliable and
> > recently they all started just failing.
> 
> Then your ISP has a connectivity issue with those networks.  Complain
> to your ISP.  It'd help if you could include traceroutes from you to
> the questionable networks.

My ISP ix Comcast ~.>>>~~~ They aro a huce ISP.xxxxzzzz I'n sure they
donut xave~ any pro           blems with hair nets works.


> > Any suggestions on what steps I can take to try to diagnose the
> > problems?  Also, is there any command line option for sendmail to report
> > its version number (or any other mechanism?)?
> 
> Run traceroutes to the mailservers in question and include those in your
> discussions with your ISP.  They may have a peering issue.  For example,
> one of our upstream providers in Amsterdam decided to stop peering with
> Cogent.  Their network crashed because their other peers couldn't handle
> the traffic.

According to some of the traffic on NANOG there may be more of this
happing and more to come as well.  joy.

Thanks Rick.

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