-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've just finished my monthly round of type I remailer testing. This test doesn't include remailers announced after I started; they'll be inclued next month. (Also coming in March will be tests of at least one other nym server.) As in January, I sent posts from my PPP account here (at Aracnet, this time, rather than Teleport) through a given remailer to an account at alpha.c2.org, then back through the remailer to me. This is, by design, a very different sort of test than remailer pinging and the like; in the number of hops and chances for things to go wrong, I think it reflects actual usage much more closely. Trip time is the interval from being posted to mail.aracnet.com to arriving in my mailbox there. All times are given in hours:minutes. Posts were made at all times of day. Unsurprisingly, those made late at night (particularly in the midnight-to-6 am range) returned most quickly. I've included the January figures for comparison persons. I remain curious about the differences and eager to find an explanation. REMAILER FAILURES AVERAGE MINIMUM MAXIMUM hfinney@shell.portal.com February 00 00:45 00:35 01:00 January 00 00:08 00:02 00:38 hal@alumni.caltech.edu February 00 00:46 00:35 01:00 January 00 00:09 00:06 00:12 homer@rahul.net February 00 00:50 00:37 01:08 January 00 00:06 00:03 00:14 remailer@utopia.hacktic.nl February 00 01:10 00:47 02:03 January 00 00:19 00:03 01:20 remailer@tjava.com February 00 001:47 00:26 05:26 January not tested mix@zifi.genetics.utah.edu February 00 01:56 00:31 03:35 January not tested remailer@replay.com February 00 03:00 00:51 07:45 January 01 00:31 00:13 01:14 remailer@mockingbird.alias.net February 00 03:29 00:56 06:35 January not tested mixmaster@vishnu.alias.net February 00 04:29 00:40 11:27 January 00 00:56 00:23 02:38 mix@remail.gondolin.org February 00 06:30 00:40 12:52 January 08 11:37 03:58 18:36 mixmaster@remailer.obscura.com February 00 06:53 00:55 13:25 January 00 02:36 00:23 06:55 remailer@extropia.wimsey.com February 00 09:15 01:35 23:50 January 08 01:46 01:19 02:13 amnesia@chardos.connix.com February 10 January 10 pamphlet@idiom.com February 10 January not tested remail@c2.org February 10 January 02 00:52 00:14 03:00 remailer@bi-node.zerberus.de February 10 January 00 07:43 00:15 19:54 Mailers reported as down with no expectation of returning: hroller@c2.org remailer@armadillo.com Mailers reported as down with some expectation of returning: remailer@valhalla.phoenix.net / wmono@spook.alias.net I'd particularly like to thank the remailer operations who (mostly in private mail) answered a number of questions of mine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEPAwUBMS02wn3AXR8sjiylAQEd/gfMD4FdgFNMh69P6nd4xdcPogD26zMi5RwQ JfraMZqG75ezMq4Z5kr1v5j77vNZZ2Bka5T0mR76TqYSPDzKGturPJNY1bSd7Cbn xUdpee43uo09+QdVpR/IGPKKjxH8qUhJC4X2WvHDlfTdNRCjItIQF2gkBJPRmknJ OCnHku/bMBs7sr+7OsQyMwvfQrkxpu3Wh/LYV/+U0vEWnCzFupOHQ9nnu+JSCaUu naFYlqP6w0Ywl6qeTAvRJPgx+PfVDk4B0WZHnXFi1p9IMDaQ7FysxH1pc2mPkURR M+rwz1ElfCMoMB4JiF5Y3r1aZAf9ES2HLz1sTcueji2S/g== =O4Sc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Bruce Baugh bruce@aracnet.com http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce