Charles, to be more specific, the issue seems especially bad between comcast and freelists. Several lists have been impacted recently. Remember that Comcast DNS is run by completely unskilled and unqualified engineers who got their technical skills from the inside of a cracker jacks box. (and not the good cracker jacks but the cheap Mexican knock offs you see in the little markets in San Jose east side) lol The comcast.net domain has been high jacked several times because of an exploit that was discovered in DNS involving unsecure updates and non checksum based calculations. As a result mail relaying gets jammed up when people start monkeying around with their tables. This is irritating but harmless. The harmful stuff is what happens when bank domains are high jacked and people start mashing in passwords by the thousands. Anyone who uses comcast DNS for recurrsion is taking a serious risk. It's easily patched but the last time I checked which was about a week ago it still wasn't patched. The patch and exploit have been solved for over a month now so like I said, Cracker Jacks! (We had it patched the same day thank you) What's interesting is I use comcast mail and think it's been a fairly continuous flow of messages. Comcast mail and DNS though is very distributed so it could be geographic. Sorry to run on but it seemed on topic since folks are having issues. If anyone wants help and is on Comcast redefining DNS to a safe name service provider contact me off list or just visit http://www.opendns.org and follow the instructions. It's totally free and extremely high performance and secure. Open DNS won't fix your mail relaying issues but it will secure you from DNS high jacking. Folks having issues with comcast mail might consider another free or pay mail provider.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:59 AM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: What Happened?
Oh that could be true, who knows that is interesting.Yeah for the Month of August there has been 87 messages posted to gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSandy S. and Rich Did you get all those messages? Thanks Charles. At 09:48 AM 8/14/2008, you wrote:Charles, there has been some Comcast Mail gateway issues. I'm wondering if the impacted users not receiving messages are in fact on Comcast, especially Comcast east. Even between Covad (my employer) and Comcast (my home ISP) there have been delays north of 2 hours when the mail transfer should happen in milliseconds.----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles LaPierre" <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 7:39 PM Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: What Happened?Everything seems to be working as expected so I am not sure what to say. A reply to the list should reach everyone. Thanks Charles. At 07:33 PM 8/13/2008, you wrote:Rich, my experience echoes yours-- I have not received many messages latelyand did not receive any yesterday.Charles- what should I do? Your message to Rich came through so I think I'llbe able to take advantage of a reply to the list. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Irwin Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:12 AM To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [gps-talkusers] What Happened? Hi:Since I got a monthly reminder the other day that I was on this list, I havenot received any messages from the group. Is the list still alive? Rich Irwin rich.irwin@xxxxxxxxxxxCharles M. La Pierre CTO Sendero Group"The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream, Voice Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate1-888-757-6810 Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" WCharles M. La Pierre CTO Sendero Group"The GPS company." Distributors of the mPower, PK, Victor Stream, Voice Sense, KNFB Mobile Reader, Talks, Miniguide and ID Mate1-888-757-6810 Lat. 37 15' 25" N Lon: 121 53' 04" W
