>Re: Anybody having problems with excite.com
not today:
Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 10)
sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain
-------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -----------
53114 1275m 0 22.0 s 1.4 m aol.com
14337 355721k 108 32.8 s 1.0 h hotmail.com
10455 257328k 72 47.0 s 9.1 h yahoo.com
3773 90406k 6625 1.2 h 9.4 h webtv.net
3155 75753k 85 38.0 s 34.4 m msn.com
2818 69649k 0 16.1 s 39.0 s cs.com
932 22236k 1 16.6 s 30.9 m earthlink.net
729 18200k 14 53.0 s 2.1 h excite.com
645 15455k 0 15.6 s 32.0 s juno.com
one minute is pretty long to deliver a msg, but it's not so much worse than
the crap msn.com and homail.com.
>1) Return path latency between my network and theirs, with an emphasis on
>determining if there's something in my config that's possibly refusing
>packets/dropping packets
>
>2) Speed of the DNS servers. The domains I'm hosting use BulkRegister,and
>I get the feeling (an opinion based on going to the dnsstuff.com page)
>that the typical service from bulkregister is poisoned/marginal in order
>to make customers want to pony up for their "deluxe" service. On the DNS
>speed test I was getting a consistent F with lookups to their servers
>crawling in at nearly 2700ms.
2.7 seconds isn't too bad, in an SMTP session that can take up to 60 secs
end to end.
>4) I'm going to be hunting for snafu's in the filespace the server uses,
>clean all the cruft out, check for anything that's gone belly-up in the
>thread pool.
no, the same filespace in imail/spool is re-used for all mail to all servers.
Len
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