On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Eric Murray wrote:
One drawback of the decentralized kludged-up CDR system is that it's difficult to trace problems.
????? I'll have to disagree - it's simple and reliable. What makes this incident stand out is how little mail gets lost. How few problems we realy do have over a given period with the network. Usually there is little if any question of which box has thrown a bit or gone deaf. Getting a hold of the operator can be a chore sometime. There's not a lot of discussion between the operators really. Now, as to dropped mail. It happens sometimes. 3 messages from one user getting dropped sounds more like a problem on the source end than in the CDR itself. Usually when a node starts throwing dup'es or dropping email wholesale (we've had this problem in the past) the hue and cry go up pretty quickly. Perhaps somebody rm'ed some buffer, sendmail went core, whatever. The question is does it happen again and if so what are it's characteristics compaired to this incident. Cover your sixes. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------