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Remailers, Feb

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NODE ecce53c3Remailers, Feb
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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.



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-- 
Bruce Baugh
bruce@aracnet.com
http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce
NODE d3cd3a9bRe: Remailers, Feb
> 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


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