thanks, man is that any way to run a mail server? On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:45:26 +1200 David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I saw that the NZNOG list had a discussion about this, and Xtra's MTA is > only accepting 2 concurrent connections. > Here is some posts about it: > > > > > 1000+ messages queued here.... > > I have discovered if you up the TIMEOUT delay of your SMTP server to > ~5min it will eventually accept. > > It takes roughly 10-30 seconds to get an initial SMTP ACK PROMPT, and > then the rest is pretty delayed aswel. > > I have gotten all my mail through :) > > - Drew > > _______________________________________________ > NZNOG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog > > > > This message was also posted to the list: > > > We started having problems more than a week ago, with queues of 10K and more > building up over the day through to Xtra. At night, this was 2-3 times as > bad. > > We managed to (finally) get through to CTSHelp, who advised us that Xtra had > made a policy decision to only accept 2 connections per source IP/domain. > This was effectively throttling our mail down to around 2-3 messages per > second. > > Obviously an attempt to limit the impact of the recent Sober work and > variants on xtra's part... > > Paul > > > I hope that help a bit. > Ciao, Dave -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
