-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I've been catching up on past messages; I see there was some interest in scripts for pinging remailers, and some questions about how many there are, etc. Here is the data file and script I use to ping non-special remailers. Note: remailer #12 will only remail if you attach "digital cash", remailer #20 batches until midnight, remailer #21 requires encryption. Save this as "remailer.data" - ----------8< cut here >8---------- 01:n:remailer@chaos.bsu.edu 02:n:nowhere@bsu-cs.bsu.edu 03:n:hh@cicada.berkeley.edu 04:n:hh@pmantis.berkeley.edu 05:n:hh@soda.berkeley.edu 06:n:00x@uclink.berkeley.edu 07:y:hal@alumni.caltech.edu 08:y:ebrandt@jarthur.claremont.edu 09:y:catalyst@netcom.com 10:y:sameer@netcom.com 11:y:remailer@rebma.mn.org 12:y:elee6ue@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 13:y:elee7h5@rosebud.ee.uh.edu 14:y:hfinney@shell.portal.com 15:y:sameer@soda.berkeley.edu 16:y:remail@tamsun.tamu.edu 17:y:remail@tamaix.tamu.edu 18:y:remailer@utter.dis.org 19:y:remailer@entropy.linet.org 20:y:elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu 21:s:remail@extropia.wimsey.com - ----------8< cut here >8---------- and then the script - ----------8< cut here >8---------- #!/usr/local/bin/perl #ping the anonymous remailers #Karl L. Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu> open (IN, "remailer.data") || die "Can't open remailer.data\n"; while (<IN>) { ($num, $rest) = split(/:/, $_, 2); $remailers{$num} = $rest; } close (IN); #ping all remailers except special ones foreach $i (sort keys(%remailers)) { ($mode, $name) = split(/:/, $remailers{$i}); print "remail via $name" if $mode ne "s"; open (MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail " . $name); print MAIL "To: " . $name; print MAIL "From: nobody\n"; print MAIL "Subject: test " . $i . "\n"; print MAIL "Request-Remailing-To: klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu\n"; print MAIL "\ntesting :-)\n"; close (MAIL); sleep 5; } - ----------8< cut here >8---------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLU8EUIOA7OpLWtYzAQFbjAQAhMj765Rd7r4BgRkXnRKmSRuJRphyNz/6 3Q7N4v+rQME44ZtiufDkxEyxj/M7s+bMXRqP+2n+gXVSaAgXq/g2CFrVisyvL70P 6RS//XHaoThJHRPp9x0/p9fO2MMeqOct0YXtYWi2C9LlU8B9/smjm7/Qg6q65tgk D3FgR6YAlZI= =bl8B -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----