When does a performance problem become a complete halt / stoppage ??

[Martin Tom Brown]

In article <353e0d8e...@news.demon.co.uk>
ste...@nouce.towering.demon.co.uk "Steve Perks" writes:

> So - I've got 45 e-mails waiting on punts 3 & 2 and MOTD glady
> informs me :-
>
> Fingering "mo...@gate.demon.co.uk" ...
> Waiting For Data From 158.152.1.65 ...
>
> Mail performance problems. Authentication problems fixed.
> Finger sta...@gate.demon.co.uk for more info. Last change: 22:15
> Apr 21.

What has me puzzled is that despite the MOTD which I occasionally
got to see last night the only service that was working for
me was ping 158.152.1.222 and even *that* was intermittent.
Most of the time logins were not getting that far!!

The majority of my Ascend (Test & Mainstream) logons failed waiting
for MOTD or HELLO a but couple actually got in, and had no routing
beyond the internal magic address.

Telehouse was reliable at login but had no routing.

The system was busy because I was also seeing quite a few BUSY
responses from Finchley & Telehouse and "ring out without reply".

I presume that the network being busy was responsible for all the
login authentication problems that MOTD thought were not happening
as it seems logical that the people who were connected had routing
and were quite happy with the performance.

The problem seems to be with logging in at peak times.

Or maybe something else was still FUBAR, but it was the worst day
using Demon for a very long time. The login problem was present
earlier in the day too but seen only at 1/3 rather than 14/16
and earlier on if you got a connection it worked.

Days like this you are glad to have a choice of ISPs

Regards,
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Martin Brown <mar...@nezumi.demon.co.uk> __ CIS: 71651,470
Scientific Software Consultancy /^,,)__/