We started having problems more than a week ago, with queues of 10K
and more building up over the day through to Xtra. At night, this
was 2-3 times as bad.
We managed to (finally) get through to CTSHelp, who advised us that
Xtra had made a policy decision to only accept 2 connections per source
IP/domain. This was effectively throttling our mail down to around 2-3
messages per second.
Obviously an attempt to limit the impact of the recent Sober work and
variants on xtra's part...
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 16:33:12 +1200
From:
jamesc@wave.co.nz (James Clark)
Subject: Re: [nznog] Xtra
To: Neil
Gardner <
NeilG@renaissance.co.nz>
Cc:
nznog@list.waikato.ac.nzMessage-ID: <
20040423043312.GA27729@phoenix.wave.co.nz>
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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 04:10:01PM
+1200, Neil Gardner wrote:
> Chuckle - I _KNOW_ it's just a
coincidence, but less than 15 minutes after
> lampooning Xtra's
generally useless status page about never being updated,
> they have
managed to list the intermittent (!) email problem, only 26 hours
>
after it was first notied on this list!
26? Try more than 48
hrs, and apparently it was worse on Tuesday!