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Re: LetterRip Overrunning our DNS?

From: Kenneth Kirksey
Date: Monday, April 19, 2004
Time: 11:16:05 am

On 4/19/04 at 12:47 PM, Len Conrad <LenConrad@MenAndMice.com> wrote:

>I agree, I bet he's saturating the outbound link, causing DNS and SMTP
>traffic to be slowed, screwing up everything. DNS timeouts is a
>symptom, not the cause.
>
>It's very easy to saturate a T-1 with a list server, esp if the server
>is sending one recipient per SMTP connection, rather than multiple
>recipients per connection and/or the msgs are big (with attachments
>enabled).

Highly likely, since our outbound connection is only 1 Mbps. I'll try lower=
ing the number of simultaneous outbound SMTP connections and see what happe=
ns. I'll also post to the LetterRip list and see what they have to say. Tha=
nks!

Ken



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