Super interesting, and very helpful. Thanks Paul.

Luke

On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:37 AM Paul Gregg <pgregg+mai...@pgregg.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 03:52:49AM -0700, Luke via mailop wrote:
> > Starting very precisely on January 6th, we started to see a number of
> > previously reliable domains turn up with secondary MX records that look
> > like these:
> >
> > cluster1a.us.messagelabs.com
> > cluster1a.eu.messagelabs.com
> > cluster1a.uk.messagelabs.com
> >
> > The domains with these secondary records have primary mx records that
> look
> > like these:
> >
> > cluster1.us.messagelabs.com
> > cluster1.eu.messagelabs.com
> > cluster1.uk.messagelabs.com
> >
> > Starting on January 6th, successful deliveries to these domains declined
> > about 50%, but did not drop to zero. Engagement at these domains has
> > remained steady. However we are now seeing *tons *of *421 Service
> > Temporarily Unavailable *responses from the secondary MX records while
> > still seeing successful deliveries to the primary MX record.
> >
> > Curious to hear if anyone else is seeing something similar or if anyone
> > can help me understand what might be going on with these cluster1a* MX
> > records.
> >
> > Here are a few example domains:
> >
> > funaisoken.co.jp
> > cimb.com
> > stockland.com.au
> > travelex.com
> >
> > Would love to hear any thoughts or insights.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Luke
>
> Can't really help other than to say we don't see anything like that.
>
> Looked at logs for yesterday - precisely zero 421 Service Temporarily
> Unavailable responses from cluster1a? (both).
> Some for other clusters, e.g. cluster10a
>
> If stats helps, we delivered over 15,000 messages to cluster1.(us|eu|uk) -
> but zero to cluster1a - didn't need to drop to lower prio mx
>
> PG
>
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