but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for,
ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
TOdd,
Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of
AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.
--Richard
Hmm.. I just tried telnetting to [a-e].mx.aol.com and [ab].mr.aol.com
(those are what I got back as the MX' for 'aol.com'), and the ONLY one
that did't give connection refused was:
taner@coredump:~ >telnet c.mx.aol.com 25
Trying 198.81.11.32...
Connected to emin28.mx.aol.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 emin28.mail.aol.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-2.0.0; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:42:15 -0400 (EDT)
hmm.. I just tried it again, and it refused me...
Looks like they may just be overloaded?
-Taner
Hmm.. I just tried telnetting to [a-e].mx.aol.com and [ab].mr.aol.com
(those are what I got back as the MX' for 'aol.com'), and the ONLY one
that did't give connection refused was:
(...)
hmm.. I just tried it again, and it refused me...
That's what we're seeing, too. We've also been queueing it separately,
trying to be neighborly, but I've been wondering, with the backlog that
must be building worldwide and the amount of time they've been in this
state, if they will come back any time in the distant future. It would
seem to me that there's a point beyond which, when they come back up,
they're so hammered that they go right back down again. If that were the
case, then the symptoms would be very similar to those we're seeing right
now.
Then again, maybe they're doing just fine. My growing mqueue.aol would
seem to indicate otherwise. Maybe someone from AOL would like to dispell
this naive point of view, or, if they are having problems, indicate to the
North American operators (and those on other planets, like Herr Fleming)
what we can do on our end to help them come back up.
Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for,
ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
Mail is being deferred (for the last two days), but it is getting
through if your mailer is processing its mail queues regularly...
Victor Oppleman
FYI, folks here are aware of this problem and are working on it.
Mail does continue to work, but at somewhat reduced capacity.
--Richard
Subject: Re: Not to be alarmist...
TOdd,Could you be more specific? I've been getting mail in and out of
AOL just fine, both via aol.com and via aol.net.--Richard
> Subject: Not to be alarmist...
> but has anyone else noticed that AOL's mail servers have been down for,
> ohh, two days now? Does this count as a "severe outage"?
>
> __
> Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises
tlewis@mindspring.com
I direct everyone's attenion to www.des.violation.net, specificly to
Aol's mail server...
But, hey, it's a free country. 
Yup, saw that too...
Dirk
This problem has also been reported by several other ISPs in my area to a
local ISP mailing list.
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