[Remops] Attn Middleman remailers

Bananasplit Admin admin at bananasplit.info
Thu Feb 2 01:53:00 GMT 2006


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I've been pondering why some remailers are showing in stats as
consistently unreliable.  Not through downtime and periods of no
returns, just always unreliable.  A conversation today with Frell's
admin revealed the answer.

The reason is that some Middleman nodes have stats that are years out of
date.  As they cannot return pings directly, (unless they whitelist
pingers) they have to randhop every ping.  They are attempting in many
cases to randhop to nodes that no longer exist.

Best solution is to whitelist pingers.  This solves the problem without
the need to maintain accurate stats and also provides accurate results
for latency.  The other option is to download a regular set of stats
from a pinger so that randhops go to currently reliable remailers.

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