[Outages-discussion] Email issues with earthlink.net

[Frank Bulk]

>From Earthlink's status site: "The Email outage was resolved at 12:05 AM EST
on 08-02-2012"

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:34 PM
To: outages at outages.org; 'mailop at mailop.org' (mailop at mailop.org)
Subject: RE: Email issues with earthlink.net

As noted on http://support.earthlink.net/contact/outages.php

Product:				Email
Issue:					Email Delivery Delay
Who's Impacted:			EarthLink & People PC
Last Updated Date and Time:		8/1/12 07:29:28 PM EST
Status:				Active
Area Code:		
Details:		
EarthLink and People PC customer may encounter delays in receiving their
emails, we are aware of the issue and working to resolve it as soon as
possible. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please continue to check this
site for updates.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnkblk at iname.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:23 PM
To: outages at outages.org; 'mailop at mailop.org' (mailop at mailop.org)
Subject: Email issues with earthlink.net

I'm seeing email backing up to earthlink.net with "451 System is temporarily
unavailable", starting at 7:16 pm Central.  They have four equally-weighted
MX records.  Two of them mx1 and mx4 are timing out (209.86.93.226 and
209.86.93.229) and mx2 experiences a "connection refused" (209.86.93.227).
mx3 (209.86.93.228) does connect.

Frank