Sympatico smtp

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:56:14 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Teddy Mills" <teddymills-VFlxZYho3OA at public.gmane.org>  said:
> I was told by Sympatico that the email servers were bogged down by rampant
> email viruses, causing, essentially an indirect  DOS attack.

That's a remarkably honest answer.

> telnet smtp1.sympatico.ca 25
> Trying 209.226.175.80...
> Connected to smtp1.sympatico.ca.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 tomts33-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP server (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05
> 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) ready Sat, 18 Oct 2003 01:47:16 -0400
> 
> Who the heck makes InterMail? Is that the email server?

Yes, that's the mail server; it is sold by "software.com" who were
bought out by "OpenWave."

> As you can see, if you ping smtp1.sympatico.ca repeatly, you get different
> ips, 80/81/82...
> 
> smtp27.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.81
> smtp27.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.82
> smtp27.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.80
> smtp28.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.80
> smtp28.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.81
> smtp28.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.82
> smtp26.bellglobal.com   internet address = 209.226.175.80
> smtp26.bellglobal.com   internet address = 209.226.175.81
> smtp26.bellglobal.com   internet address = 209.226.175.82
> smtp12.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.81
> smtp12.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.82
> smtp12.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.80
> smtp29.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.80
> smtp29.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.81
> smtp29.sympatico.ca     internet address = 209.226.175.82

This is also not remarkable, nor is it an indication of
incompetence.  Apparently they have a whole bunch of mail
servers, and you "round robin" against them in some fashion.
Seems a sensible thing to me...

For all that they are stunningly less-than-the-best, the
things you are pointing at are not evidences of this.
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