Top Document: APAS Anonymous Remailer Use [FAQ 5/8]: Statistics Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: [FAQ 5.2] How are stats Versions 1 and 2 different? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Stats pages are a snapshot of the current status of the traditional remailer network. They list the remailers the maintainer of that stats page is "pinging", those remailers' capabilities and limitations, and how well those remailers are replying to those pings. From this data, remailer uptime and latency can be deduced. Keep in mind that the results shown on different stats pages often vary widely and that the stat page you are looking at shows the results as seen from the remailer doing the pinging. Network conditions between this remailer and the others can and will influence the results. For example, a stats source (pinger) temporarily without mail access will list all pinged remailers as having low reliability (assuming that Web access is present). In fact, it is the pinger itself whose reliability has declined. Refreshing stats from such a pinger may result in the remailer client complaining that there are not enough remailers. Other things that will influence the results are not having the current key(s) for a remailer on the pinger's keyring. Often key changes are made and announced, but a stats page maintainer might miss this, or his remailer isn't automatically updating with new keys and purging old keys. If possible (i.e., if the stats source provides them), check the keyrings. With new remailers coming on line all the time and others departing the network after only a brief appearance, it can be very difficult to maintain an accurate list of exactly which remailers are really online. Also, when a remailer joins or leaves the network, the uptime and latency stats for that remailer will not respond instantaneously. Stats are an analysis of data taken over several days and presented as a moving average. Some stats pages are in question 5.3. Elcaro posts his Remailer Reliability Statistics daily in APAS. This guy is a stats maniac! His stats offer: * 1 Hop Remailer Check for a day and the last week * MultiHop(1-4) Remailer Check for a day * Position Check for the MultiHop Check for a day each remailer giving Success/Failure/Total/Percentage for every position * Position Check for the MultiHop Check Summary for the last week * Arc Analysis for Last 7 Days Success/Failure/Total/Percentage User Contributions:Top Document: APAS Anonymous Remailer Use [FAQ 5/8]: Statistics Previous Document: News Headers Next Document: [FAQ 5.2] How are stats Versions 1 and 2 different? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Part6 - Part7 - Part8 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: turing+apas-user-faq@eskimo.com (Computer Cryptology)
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