
-----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

mix@remail.gondolin.org February 00 06:30 00:40 12:52 January 08 11:37 03:58 18:36
The differences here are because gondolin.org had serious DNS problems in January that caused alot of mail to be bounced. Those problems were rectified.. hence our traffic flows now... The latency differences are normal for gondolin because we are not on the net, we get our mail via UUCP one hop away from the internet itself. Since our polling is fairly irregular, our latency will move up and down from month to month. Bryan -- = Bryan Strawser / Indiana University / bstrawse@indiana.edu = = Live Free or Die / http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~bstrawse = = Gondolin Technologies / http://www.gondolin.org/gondolin =
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Bruce Baugh
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Bryan Strawser