[news.sysadmin] Bottleneck?

jmatrow@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (John Matrow) (05/02/89)

In one particular newsgroup, which shall remain nameless to protect the
innocent, we just received some 10 day old articles. In fact, I saw
followups to them long before they arrived. Below are the Paths but
I don't see a common node which may have held them up.
Is this something to worry about or is it normal?

2571:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ucbvax!tut.\
cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!att!tellab5!jcj
2572:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!helios.ee.l\
bl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!news
2573:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!helios.ee.l\
bl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!news
2574:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ucbvax!tut.\
cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!okstate!bem
2575:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ames!lll-wi\
nken!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!wrd
2576:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ames!lll-wi\
nken!uunet!tektronix!tekgen!tekigm2!wrd
2577:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!sdcsvax!ucsd!ucbvax!decw\
rl!nsc!versatc!leadsv!gregg
2578:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!ncsuvx!gatech!uflorida!indri!cs\
d4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!joplin.cs.rpi.edu!mcintyrd
2579:Path: ncrwic!ncrlnk!ncrcae!ece-csc!mcnc!rutgers!mailrus!jarvis.csr\
i.toronto.edu!utgpu!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!sickkids!mark
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dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (05/04/89)

jmatrow@ncrwic.Wichita.NCR.COM (John Matrow) sez:
> In one particular newsgroup, which shall remain nameless to protect the
> innocent, we just received some 10 day old articles.
> ........
> Is this something to worry about or is it normal?

It happens once in a while: one of our upstream feeds (again it will remain
nameless) gets blocked once in a while (twice since we came on the net 18
months ago). It's part of life - it happens, and I wouldn't worry about it.
I don't.
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