trapdoor.merit.edu and other impatient Postfix mailers everywhere
John Fraizer
nanog at Overkill.EnterZone.Net
Thu Aug 2 22:22:55 UTC 2001
On Thu, 2 Aug 2001 kai at pac-rim.net wrote:
>
> If you are receiving larger numbers of reports about failing mail
> transport from your customers these days, here is why.
>
> Apparently, the nameservers for the blackholes.mail-abuse.org and
> dialups.mail-abuse.org zones are overloaded (I get <10% ICMP_echo's
> back, and virtually never any DNS answers), causing a more than
> 60-second connection-established -> 220 Hello banner
> answering delay on typical Unix-based Sendmail (and other SMTP)
> servers with default DNS resolver timeouts.
I noticed the same thing this afternoon but, only with
trapdoor.merit.edu. All other mail was making it in fine.
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John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
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