We saw noticeable AOL email delivery issues on the 26th and 27th, but not since then. I saw nothing queued up New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. Today we saw a very few delivery delays, but that cleared up by 2:45 pm Central. The message we get is: Site aol.com (<aol MX>) said after data sent: 421 4.2.1 "Service unavailable. Please try again later." Frank P.S. I'd encourage folk to join the mailop listserv (http://chilli.nosignal.org/mailman/listinfo/mailop) if they want to stay abreast of such issues (note that the listserv tries its hardest to avoid mail abuse issues, encouraging those folk to discuss those topics in avenues that specialize in them). I can't say that the mailop listserv has email admins for all the major freemail providers (if they do, they're lurking), but there's a reasonably sized community of ISPs and dotcom companies. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Olsen [mailto:nick@flhsi.com] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:24 PM To: Barry Shein; nanog@nanog.org Subject: re: What's up at AOL? We're seeing mail backup toward AOL as well. All coming back Service Unavailable. Postmaster@aol.com has not responded to our inquiry yet. Nick Olsen Network Operations (855) FLSPEED x106 ---------------------------------------- From: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 12:46 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: What's up at AOL? They've been accepting email only occasionally for a few days now. We're on FBL, check reputation is good/green. Sometimes we get DYN:T2 (according to AOL that's their code for it's our, AOL's, problem), sometimes just various forms of try later, Service not available, deferred, etc. typically after the DATA is sent so MAIL FROM and RCPT TO are ok or no error. I did get one response from postmaster@aol.com which said it was all fixed yesterday which it was for several hours and today thousands of msgs backed up for them again. I am just asking if anyone knows what's going on even in general terms. That is, should we stop fussing with this (everyone's hosed w/ AOL this week?) or is it just us? -- -Barry Shein The World | bzs@TheWorld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 800-THE-WRLD | Dial-Up: US, PR, Canada Software Tool & Die | Public Access Internet | SINCE 1989 *oo*