mail delivery time on nanog-l (was Re: Die thread, DIE!)

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Thu Aug 22 21:26:32 UTC 2002


At 7:19 AM +0200 2002/08/22, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

>  Here are two examples. I have seen email with 20+ minutes delay even on
>  the last hop to me, though in the first example it was only 4-5 minutes.
>  In the first example most of the delay is within merit, on the last one
>  the majority of the delay is from trapdoor to my box.

	But we don't know what the *cause* is of the delay between Merit 
& your box.  That might be caused by network problems between the two 
points, your box temporarily being unavailable, or whatever.

	We just don't have enough information to make a determination as 
to whose fault this problem is.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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