Question: how echolot determines reliability of middlemen

[Peter Palfrader]

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On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, Hermes Admin wrote:

> I'm trying to figure out why hermes has suddenly lost a lot of reliabilit=
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> in the last few days. I had 4 days of 90-100% and then I dropped to 30-60=
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> for a few days.
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> My question is how echolot determines the reliability of middlemen. Since=
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> any message going through a middleman subsequently goes through another=
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> exit node, how does echolot separate the reliability of the middleman vs.=
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> the exit node? Does the reliability of the random exit node affect the=20
> stats for the middleman?

Right now it's the middleman that randhops the message, so it's its job
to select a reliable exit node.  echolot doesn't care how the message
returns, only whether it returns.

This reflects the use case where a middleman node is at the end of a
chain.  I realize that this isn't perfect and would like to change it.
Any suggestions apprechiated.

Peter
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