On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Tim Bunce wrote: [...] > Is there a problem with the [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing lists? I seem to be experiencing sporadic > delivery problems. Your network is blocking connections from the perl.org mailhost. archive.develooper.com (and www.perl.org and others) are on the same box. host -t mx alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov mail is handled (pri=0) by alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov $ telnet alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov 25 Trying 128.183.16.213... ... (times out). # /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread | grep -v done | grep alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov| wc -l 412 (from the last week alone) Curiously enough there are 9 mails that made it through. a traceroute from a nearby network which might help your network administrator fix the problem: Matt's traceroute [v0.42] lux.valueclick.com Thu Jun 7 16:05:23 2001 Keys: D - Display mode R - Restart statistics Q - Quit Packets Pings Hostname %Loss Rcv Snt Last Best Avg Worst 1. 216.246.96.1 0% 6 6 1 0 1 1 2. 209.85.223.49 0% 6 6 4 4 6 13 3. hood-msfc-p1.softaware.com 0% 6 6 4 4 8 11 4. gigaethernet1-0.lee-12000. 0% 6 6 4 4 6 12 5. 500.POS3-1.GW6.LAX4.ALTER. 0% 6 6 5 5 8 21 6. 169.ATM2-0.XR2.LAX4.ALTER. 0% 6 6 5 5 7 16 7. 192.ATM2-0.TR2.LAX2.ALTER. 0% 6 6 5 5 8 23 8. 111.at-6-1-0.TR4.SCL1.ALTE 0% 6 6 24 17 21 30 9. 399.ATM6-0.XR2.SJC1.ALTER. 0% 6 6 16 16 19 30 10. 192.ATM5-0.BR2.SJC1.ALTER. 0% 6 6 18 18 20 32 11. 192.150.31.29 0% 6 6 14 14 18 30 12. 128.161.3.94 0% 6 6 15 14 56 226 13. s-GSFC12-ATM.NSN.NASA.GOV 0% 5 5 76 75 78 86 14. rtr-wan1-ef.gsfc.nasa.gov 0% 5 5 77 77 82 88 15. vlan910-csr2.gsfc.nasa.gov 0% 5 5 86 77 83 86 16. rtr-b2-cat5.gsfc.nasa.gov 0% 5 5 81 78 84 95 17. 128.161.3.94 100% 0 5 0 0 0 0 - ask -- ask bjoern hansen, http://ask.netcetera.dk/ !try; do();