We're having a lot of deferrals with connection timeouts for mail destined to hotmail.com, some of the IP's in question are accessable breifly from other locations before they start timing out as well. This is resulting in a lot of hotmail.com bound email backfilling in our queues. Is this some new tarpitting or throttling mechanism, anyone else experiencing it? Can a hotmail admin contact me off-list? -mark -- Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> Co-founder, easyDNS Technologies Inc. ph. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 fx. +1-(416)-535-0237
On 04/20/04, Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
We're having a lot of deferrals with connection timeouts for mail destined to hotmail.com, some of the IP's in question are accessable breifly from other locations before they start timing out as well.
Known issue. It should be resolved now, but everyone else is unspooling too, so the load is still high. In general, though, if you think your mail is being blocked by MSN Hotmail, the following links should help: http://privacy.msn.com/anti-spam/ http://www.advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_TechStd.asp http://www.advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_BulkDupe.asp (Disclaimer: I work for Hotmail. This is my personal account, from which I've been reading NANOG for some years, except for the occasional hiatus. While I try to be helpful, it appears that I often have to remind people that I don't speak for Microsoft and am rarely the escalation path they're looking for.) -- J.D. Falk "be crazy dumbsaint of the mind" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> -- Jack Kerouac
This issue seems to have returned. Same symptoms. Anyone else having similar issues? Thanks Chris On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 16:29, J.D. Falk wrote:
On 04/20/04, Mark Jeftovic <markjr@easydns.com> wrote:
We're having a lot of deferrals with connection timeouts for mail destined to hotmail.com, some of the IP's in question are accessable breifly from other locations before they start timing out as well.
Known issue. It should be resolved now, but everyone else is unspooling too, so the load is still high.
In general, though, if you think your mail is being blocked by MSN Hotmail, the following links should help:
http://privacy.msn.com/anti-spam/ http://www.advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_TechStd.asp http://www.advertising.msn.com/adproducts/Email_BulkDupe.asp
(Disclaimer: I work for Hotmail. This is my personal account, from which I've been reading NANOG for some years, except for the occasional hiatus. While I try to be helpful, it appears that I often have to remind people that I don't speak for Microsoft and am rarely the escalation path they're looking for.) -- Chris Griffin cgriffin@ufl.edu Network Engineer - CCNP Phone: (352) 392-2061 OIT - Network Services Fax: (352) 392-9440 University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:23, Chris Griffin wrote:
This issue seems to have returned. Same symptoms. Anyone else having similar issues?
Thanks Chris
Yes, same here. Took hours for our hotmail/msn queues to clear last night. We've talked to Hotmail before, they've acknowledged they're having problems... -- Alan Sparks, Sr. UNIX Administrator asparks@quris.com Quris, Inc. (720) 836-2058
On 04/27/04, Alan Sparks <asparks@quris.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 13:23, Chris Griffin wrote:
This issue seems to have returned. Same symptoms. Anyone else having similar issues?
Thanks Chris
Yes, same here. Took hours for our hotmail/msn queues to clear last night. We've talked to Hotmail before, they've acknowledged they're having problems...
Sadly still true. A few helpful hints we've been giving people: - make sure your MTA isn't latching onto just one MX, or just one IP address within each MX record; - things clear up overnight & on weekends, though I'm sure that'll change once word gets out; - don't send (or relay, or forward) spam. I'll post another update if anything changes. (Disclaimer again: this is from my personal account; I do work for Hotmail, and I'm directly involved with inbound mail, but I'm not the escalation path you're looking for.) -- J.D. Falk "be crazy dumbsaint of the mind" <jdfalk@cybernothing.org> -- Jack Kerouac
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