>I still seem to have problems connecting to hotmail. Basically every email >to hotmail is being dropped in the last week or so.
hmm, that's pretty bad. today, my list server for today: Host/Domain Summary: Message Delivery (top 20) sent cnt bytes defers avg dly max dly host/domain -------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ----------- 47122 1202m 0 16.9 s 29.0 s aol.com 12660 330532k 0 17.4 s 40.0 s hotmail.com > My logs show MX connect >failures. someone kindly sugested (Len) that it was bad traffic levels at >hotmail but it has been going on for so long, I think something has gone >wrong. yep, all failing to hotmail for a whole weeks seems like a too much. >Email to other domains have no problems. > >Is there something hotmail have enforced ? Have you paid up all your MS software licenses? >I know that some companies now >have rules saying that email must originate from a valid smtp server which I >have done now but I cannot understand it ! My IP is not listed on any of >the spam databases. > >Anyone got any others whats going wrong ? can you traceroute from Imail to all the ip's of hotmail MX's ? ;; ANSWER SECTION: hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx12.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx13.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx14.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx15.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx01.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx02.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx04.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx05.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx06.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx07.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx08.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx09.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx10.hotmail.com. hotmail.com. 1H IN MX 5 mx11.hotmail.com. ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: mx12.hotmail.com. 1H IN A 64.4.50.7 mx13.hotmail.com. 1H IN A 64.4.50.71 mx14.hotmail.com. 1H IN A 65.54.232.7 mx15.hotmail.com. 1H IN A 65.54.232.71 If you have an *nix box next to your Imail, install mtr and let run for a few hours to see packet loss. Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
