mail delays [was Re: [plug] Mr Busby is off to see the wizard]

[Craig Foster]

plug-admin at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> In message <1065787927.22705.3.camel at rattus.localdomain>
> on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:12:08PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
>> iinet have been having a lot of spammer problems, as have the Uni's,
>> so I guess most large organisations are suffering.
>
> BTW throughout the year I have been experiencing very delayed
> ("missing") e-mail. Seems that DNS on spark.plug.linux.org.au
> (machine hosting this list) occasionally fails.
>
>> I am not sure its fair to blame iinet for spammers, as the last
>> couple of weeks have been tough all round - think what it would be
>> like if YOU were running a large system ...

I don't think it's just them... Between the AFP busting P2P in WA last
week, nachi/swen activity on port 135, and a bunch of extra spam, I've had
links on iiNet, Wired City, Eftel, Westnet, and Arachnet's ADSL fluctuate
wildly in the last two weeks - 500Bytes/s from ftp.au.debian.org on a
1M5b/s connection.

The firewall logs here were ~ 5-15 packets a second at one point :(

Only time I've been happy to be on dynamic IP for a *long* time :P

Craig F.
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