Not to be alarmist...

Wed Apr 9 19:58:32 UTC 1997

	I think what he's saying is that all the mx hosts for aol.com
are not responding on their smtp ports.

	Note the attached data that shows the aol mx hosts giving
connection refused on their smtp ports.

wolverine:~> dig mx aol.com.

; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> mx aol.com. 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      aol.com, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  15 d.mx.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  15 c.mx.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  15 b.mx.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  15 a.mx.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  25 b.mr.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  25 a.mr.aol.com.
aol.com.                23h5m58s IN MX  15 e.mx.aol.com.

wolverine:~> telnet a.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.72...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet b.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.31...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet c.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.74...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet d.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.33...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet e.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.81...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet a.mr.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.19.33...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
wolverine:~> telnet b.mr.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.19.36...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

Richard Colella graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
> TOdd,
> 
> Could you be more specific?  I've been getting mail in and out of
> AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.
> 
> --Richard
> 
> 
> On Apr 9,  2:59pm, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> > Subject: Not to be alarmist...
> > but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for,
> > ohh, two days now?  Does this count as a "severe outage"?
> >
> > __
> > Todd Graham Lewis          MindSpring Enterprises      tlewis at mindspring.com
> >-- End of excerpt from Todd Graham Lewis
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 