Temporary mail problems to python.org
Some of you may have experienced temporary problems sending mail to
the python.org domain. As of about noon EST, Monday 21-Feb-2000,
these problems should have been resolved, and your queued up messages
In brief, we are in the process of moving most python.org services to
a faster machine. Friday afternoon (in direct and willful violation
of Warsaw's Second Law[1]), we changed the MX record for python.org to
point to dinsdale.python.org. Most email was already being handled by
this machine, but via a clunky forwarding scheme through the old
machine. Unfortunately, due to a misconfiguration of CNRI's gateway,
traffic to the smtp port of dinsdale was being blocked. This should
now be fixed, and queued mail should be flowing again; no mail should
have actually been lost.
If you experience any residual problems please let us know (you can
email me directly at my CNRI address, which was unaffected).
-Barry
[1] http://www.*-*-*.com/ ~bwarsaw/software/laws.html