Remailers, Feb

[Bruce Baugh <bruce@aracnet.com>]

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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