RFC-287

by Darius Kazemi, October 14 2019

In 2019 I'm reading one RFC a day in chronological order starting from the very first one. More on this project here. There is a table of contents for all my RFC posts.

Dismal results

RFC-287 is titled “Status of Network Hosts”. It's authored by Ellen Westheimer of BBN and dated December 22, 1971.

The technical content

This is another report from BBN on the status of various ARPANET hosts in the same series as RFC-267, RFC-266, RFC-255, RFC-252, RFC-235, and RFC-240.

The numbers this time, from December 6 to December 17:

Analysis

These numbers look worse than previous weeks, even when we only consider computers that have been online since the start of these measurments: a mere 24% of measurements result in reaching a computer that is fully online.

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I'm Darius Kazemi. I'm an independent technologist and artist. I do a lot of work on the decentralized web with ActivityPub, including a Node.js reference implementation, an RSS-to-ActivityPub converter, and a fork of Mastodon, called Hometown. You can support my work via my Patreon.