On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Xander Jansen wrote: + On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, John Traweek wrote: + + + After letting the logs run verbose for a while this morning, it initially + + appears to be a problem with a specific server (MX3.hotmail.com). Any mail + + sent to that server is getting the 554 Transaction Failed error. However, + + any mail being delivered MX1, MX2, MX4 appears to be delivered successfully. + + Can any one else confirm this? Thanks. + + Error-Code: 0 + Error-Text: Mailer mx2.HOTMAIL.COM said: "554 Transaction failed" + + This was last week. Maybe then the problem was with MX2 and MX3 (also). + The reports I saw this week all were about MX3, mx2 gives me a connection + refused. Errm, the connection refused was (of course?) temporary. Anyway, the four MX-records point to (at this moment) 5 different IP-addresses of what I guess are frontends/multiplexors for a probably huge amount of clustered servers. If the problem is related to one specific MX that would mean a whole cluster in trouble. Does anyone have a known working contact at Hotmail ? -- Xander