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On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 04:49:03 GMT, Raj Rijhwani <raj@rijhwani.org> wrote:
>In article <slrn98jr2s.62r.philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk>
>           philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk "phil hunt" writes:
>
>> When attempting to post email to freeserve, I often get an error message
>> from sendmail:
>
>>   Running BAA06205 (sequence 1 of 2)
>>   <lgrinzo@stny.rr.com>... Deferred: 
>>   Name server: smtp.freeserve.net: host name lookup failure
>
>It's unable to look up the name "stny.rr.com".  The odd thing is the 
>reference to smtp.freeserve.net as the name server.

I thought it sent the emails to smtp.freeserve.net, which then forwarded
them to the ultimate destination.

>> Note that i can still ping smtp.freeserve.net:
>
>>   philh:~/ftpin> ping smtp.freeserve.net
>>   PING relay.pol.net.uk (195.92.195.153): 56 data bytes
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=0 ttl=248 time=682.883 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=1951.710 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=960.043 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=3 ttl=248 time=631.747 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=4 ttl=248 time=1431.713 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=5 ttl=248 time=1091.786 ms
>>   64 bytes from 195.92.195.153: icmp_seq=6 ttl=248 time=1220.277 ms
>>   --- relay.pol.net.uk ping statistics ---
>>   8 packets transmitted, 7 packets received, 12% packet loss
>>   round-trip min/avg/max = 631.747/1138.594/1951.710 ms    
>
>That's damned slow ping!  But I'm guessing that something else 
>is taking place over the link at the same time.

nntp and http traffic, mostly.

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