Re: vger.rutgers.edu/mailing list

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:25:47 +0200 (EET)

Brian Gerst <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com> wonders:
...
> One thing I see now that I examine the mail headers more closely, is
> that I am receiving linux-kernel via listserv.funet.fi:
>
> Received: from listserv.funet.fi (listserv.funet.fi [128.214.248.27]) by
> quark.vpplus.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA06655 for
> <bgerst@quark.vpplus.com>; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:17:05 -0500
> Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2]:62267 "EHLO
> vger.rutgers.edu" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by listserv.funet.fi
> with ESMTP id <15396-13084>; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:12:18 +0200
> Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id <157390-8100>; Mon, 11
> Jan 1999 14:45:23 -0500
> Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154395-8100>; Mon, 11 Jan 1999
> 10:59:06 -0500
>
> This means that mails are being bounced across the Atlantic *twice*
> (vger->Finland->Detroit). Are there any repeaters in North America?

Numbers of different recipients per top-domain in all of VGER's lists are
listed here (top-10 in count), along with associated fanout relay:
....
633 ca vger.rutgers.edu
660 se ifi.uio.no
689 it nic.funet.fi
911 au samba.anu.edu.au
1176 org listserv.funet.fi
1226 uk ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
2634 de ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk
2700 edu entropy.muc.muohio.edu
4475 net listserv.funet.fi
8119 com listserv.funet.fi

We *tried* to run ORG, COM, and NET thru US located systems, but
when those relays failed, we moved the traffic back to FUNET...

By all means you are welcome to offer fanout relay service, but
are you prepared for the load ?

Mind you, VGER is delivering about 1.5 MILLION recipients per 24 hours
through the fanouts, and some small (mostly US-based) top-levels by
itself. The disk where all this is happening is not hottest possible
(or perhaps it literally is that, but not fastest)..

> I did notice that since the weekend, the list has been flowing much
> better, presumably because of restricting CVS access on vger. Time to
> seperate the list and CVS on different machines?

At least to separate spindles.. (disks, that is)

> Brian Gerst

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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