TOdd, Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net. --Richard On Apr 9, 2:59pm, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
Subject: Not to be alarmist... but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for, ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
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On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Richard Colella wrote:
Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.
Hmm.. I just tried telnetting to [a-e].mx.aol.com and [ab].mr.aol.com (those are what I got back as the MX' for 'aol.com'), and the ONLY one that did't give connection refused was: taner@coredump:~ >telnet c.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.32... Connected to emin28.mx.aol.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 emin28.mail.aol.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-2.0.0; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:42:15 -0400 (EDT) hmm.. I just tried it again, and it refused me... Looks like they may just be overloaded? -Taner -- D. Taner Halicioglu taner@isi.net Programmer/Engineer/Sysadmin Internet Systems, Inc. Voice: +1 408 543 0313 Fax: +1 408 541 9878 PGP Fingerprint: 65 0D 03 A8 26 21 6D B8 23 3A D6 67 23 6E C0 36
On Wed, 9 Apr 1997, Taner Halicioglu wrote:
Hmm.. I just tried telnetting to [a-e].mx.aol.com and [ab].mr.aol.com (those are what I got back as the MX' for 'aol.com'), and the ONLY one that did't give connection refused was: (...) hmm.. I just tried it again, and it refused me...
That's what we're seeing, too. We've also been queueing it separately, trying to be neighborly, but I've been wondering, with the backlog that must be building worldwide and the amount of time they've been in this state, if they will come back any time in the distant future. It would seem to me that there's a point beyond which, when they come back up, they're so hammered that they go right back down again. If that were the case, then the symptoms would be very similar to those we're seeing right now. Then again, maybe they're doing just fine. My growing mqueue.aol would seem to indicate otherwise. Maybe someone from AOL would like to dispell this naive point of view, or, if they are having problems, indicate to the North American operators (and those on other planets, like Herr Fleming) what we can do on our end to help them come back up. __ Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com
I think what he's saying is that all the mx hosts for aol.com are not responding on their smtp ports. Note the attached data that shows the aol mx hosts giving connection refused on their smtp ports. wolverine:~> dig mx aol.com. ; <<>> DiG 8.1 <<>> mx aol.com. ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch ;; got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 7, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3 ;; QUERY SECTION: ;; aol.com, type = MX, class = IN ;; ANSWER SECTION: aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 d.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 c.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 b.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 a.mx.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 25 b.mr.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 25 a.mr.aol.com. aol.com. 23h5m58s IN MX 15 e.mx.aol.com. wolverine:~> telnet a.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.72... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet b.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.31... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet c.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.74... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet d.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.33... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet e.mx.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.11.81... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet a.mr.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.19.33... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused wolverine:~> telnet b.mr.aol.com 25 Trying 198.81.19.36... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused Richard Colella graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge:
TOdd,
Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.
--Richard
On Apr 9, 2:59pm, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
Subject: Not to be alarmist... but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for, ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
__ Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com -- End of excerpt from Todd Graham Lewis
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