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3 total messages Started by F. Jacot Guillarmod Fri, 07 Aug 1992 14:56

#118

Author: F. Jacot Guillarmod
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 14:56

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Is it my paranoia, or is mail destined for *.ac.uk having some
difficulty in getting through?  Anyone else noticed funnies?  Mail
destined for the UK has been queuing up since about Monday.

Here is the output of a traceroute from "hippo.ru.ac.za" to
nsfnet-relay.ac.uk:

traceroute to nsfnet-relay.ac.uk (128.86.8.50), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  gw-cisco0.ru.ac.za (146.231.128.204)  3 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 2  155.232.248.4 (155.232.248.4)  3 ms  3 ms  3 ms
 3  * cisco1.psg.com (147.28.192.227)  8169 ms  6970 ms
 4  * * *
 5  * Portland.OR.ALTER.NET (137.39.40.1)  6801 ms  8451 ms
 6  Boston.MA.ALTER.NET (137.39.29.1)  10396 ms  8748 ms *
 7  * Washington.DC.ALTER.NET (137.39.12.1)  2476 ms *
 8  * icm-dc-1.icp.net (192.157.65.49)  6095 ms  8485 ms
 9  Washington-Stockholm.Ebone.NET (192.121.154.241)  7441 ms *  8207 ms
10  * * *
11  * * *
12  * * *
13  * * *
14  * * *
15  * *^C

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Re: mail to *.uk

#123

Author: naggs
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 22:07

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F. Jacot Guillarmod (ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za) ) writes: 
>Is it my paranoia, or is mail destined for *.ac.uk having some
>difficulty in getting through?  Anyone else noticed funnies?  Mail
>destined for the UK has been queuing up since about Monday.

Yep: JANET the ac part of uk, which links universities etc was unavailable
on Tuesday (local) time, and disappears for another day later in the month
(can't remember the date, but I think it is a Tuesday again).  Apparently
this is to allow upgrading of line capacity & other features during the 
academic holiday, (when the net should have lower use!).

Hope this clarifies the situation.

Regards,
-- 
Anthony Naggs                    |  MAN I say what it occurs to me to say when
Janet:    amn@uk.ac.brighton.vms |      I think I hear people say things.
    or    xa329@uk.ac.city       |      More I cannot say.
Internet: amn@vms.brighton.ac.uk |
       or xa329@city.ac.uk)      |  (from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Re: mail to *.uk

#119

Author: Pieter Vermeulen
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1992 22:50

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ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F. Jacot Guillarmod) writes:

>Is it my paranoia, or is mail destined for *.ac.uk having some
>difficulty in getting through?  Anyone else noticed funnies?  Mail
>destined for the UK has been queuing up since about Monday.

No, we up in the North have the same feeling which is sorta backed by
the state of the mail queue on ol' ford:

6 Aug 11:46 9037519@rkw-lan.cs.up.ac.za  > <postmaster@willow.cs.wwu.edu>
4 Aug 12:22 JBISHOP@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za  > <hg@ecs.southampton.ac.uk>
4 Aug 15:17 PRET-LC@fanella.ee.up.ac.za  > <lhswolfe@susssys1.reading.ac.uk>
4 Aug 13:03 DBEHR@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za    > <jk@doc.imperial.ac.uk>
7 Aug 16:21 GUEST@scinet.up.ac.za        > <m.j.h.cox@bradford.ac.uk>
4 Aug 17:18 JBISHOP@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za  > <dwb@ecs.southampton.ac.uk>
4 Aug 17:18 JBISHOP@dos-lan.cs.up.ac.za  > <dwb@ecs.southampton.ac.uk>
5 Aug 12:57 TRUDI@mella.ee.up.ac.za      > <martin@ee.edinburgh.ac.uk>


I'm postulating that there is a connection between this and the
12.0.0.0 route in my routing table.

Pieter Vermeulen

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