Doing some traceroutes to the xtra mail servers, it would appear they've moved all their mail handling to AU. Does anyone have any idea why? It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ. Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something? Cheers Don
Hi Don, My guess would be this: 0. Most traffic to a mail server is spam 1. Put your mail server and spam filters somewhere where bandwidth is cheaper than here 2. Have less traffic going across your expensive international link b/c you have no spam 3. Profit??? (question marks because this is something ISPs in NZ are not known for.) Cheers, Jon -----Original Message----- From: Don Gould [mailto:don(a)bowenvale.co.nz] Sent: Monday, 27 August 2007 3:33 p.m. To: nznog Subject: [nznog] Why is xtra.mail in AU? Doing some traceroutes to the xtra mail servers, it would appear they've moved all their mail handling to AU. Does anyone have any idea why? It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ. Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something? Cheers Don _______________________________________________ NZNOG mailing list NZNOG(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
On 27/08/2007, at 3:32 PM, Don Gould wrote:
Doing some traceroutes to the xtra mail servers, it would appear they've moved all their mail handling to AU.
Does anyone have any idea why?
It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ.
Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something?
Last week's discussion, clearly. Xtra now use Yahoo to handle their mail. Yahoo's closest point of presence is in AU. Why were you doing traceroutes to Xtra's mail servers? Is it causing you real world problems? -- Nathan Ward
On 27/08/2007, at 15:32 , Don Gould wrote:
It would seem nuts to use international capacity to move all the mail from NZ --> AU --> NZ.
WHen you own half of it.. you've got to use it for something: "Southern Cross Cable, half-owned by Telecom, is doubling in capacity by the end of 2008." http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4175695a28.html
Or am I (and others on some other lists) just missing something?
Cheers Don
Last week.. http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2007-August/thread.html#13431 -Jo Mesh|net
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