Subject: Assistance needed on isolating an e-mail problem.

From: "Richard L. Daugherty (8-444-6838)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 11:44:44 EDT

We are currently seeing various sites having a problem
with delivering mail to networking.raleigh.ibm.com.
The problem seems to be somehow related to DNS,
since the common failure mode has an Unknown Host error
indication.  The problem also does not effect everyone
(ie, one site will have problems while other sites
are having no problems.).

In an attempt to get a better grip on this problem, I
would like for you (yes, everyone - except for the IBMers),
to attempt to send a note addressed to:
          [email-masked]
If you get a failure/bounce, then please forward the bounce
reply to me at:
          [email-masked]

Hopefully this information will help in determining if there
are a common subset of site which cannot locate networking.raleigh.ibm.com
and if there is a single name server involved.

Thanks,
Rich Daugherty

PS: If you are having problems and need to send a note to
one of the aiw/ciw e-mail lists the following addressing
scheme might work.

    <e-mail-list>%networking.raleigh.ibm.com@<some-other-host>

Where <some-other-host> is a different system.  This will cause
the message to be sent to <some-other-host>, and then
<some-other-host> will attempt the delivery to
networking.raleigh.ibm.com.