On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:30, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: > >whose mail servers? > > > >On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 10:22:04 +1200 > > > >Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Did anyone else have problems with mail servers falling over between 5 > >>and 6pm last night, and is there anything sinister about that? > >> > >>Steve > > Ours! We run about 20 linux boxes around the Chch area. The only real > similarity between then is that they are all connected via adsl. My > worry is that someone's found a new message to send that manages to > crash procmail/sendmail and exim in some (terminal) manner. smtp.paradise.net.nz was behaving strangely between midnight an 01:00 i.e. port 25 was open and giving a sensible connection message, but it was not accepting mail. I did not investigate further. It was working correctly again when I tried to resend the message at about 08:30.
-- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
